Solution Guide:

Unity for mobile games

A practical guide to help you get started and gain the most
value when developing mobile games using Unity.
Welcome to Unity
More mobile games are made with Unity than with any other game
technology, with companies such as Disney, Electronic Arts, LEGO,
Microsoft, NASA, Nickelodeon, Square Enix, Ubisoft, Obsidian, Insomniac
and Warner Bros relying on our tools and features to drive their business.

Unity is not just a game engine for building beautiful and engaging 2D or
3D games, It’s a complete platform that enables you to deploy to all the
major and emerging mobile operating systems, speed up your development
process, optimize your game, connect with an audience, and achieve
commercial success.

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Solution Guide: Unity for Mobile Games
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Contents
Welcome to Unity...................................................................................... 02

First steps..................................................................................................04

Learning resources & development boosters................................. 05

Other support resources........................................................................ 06

The lifecycle of making a game.......................................................... 07

What to do next?....................................................................................... 08

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 01 First steps
Get Unity
Choose the edition that’s right for you here: Just search the web for “Unity tutorial [Add
https://store.unity.com/ the topic of your interest] , and you’ll find lots
of great resources.
Get up to speed with
Personal working in Unity You could also consider commercial training
All the features for beginners & like the Complete Unity Course on Udemy.
hobbyists to get started. If you’re new to Unity, here’s our recommend-
ed learning resources to get started:
Get involved in our
1. Unity Interface & Essentials:
Everything you need to know to get started
community
using Unity, from basic If you get stuck, there is always help to be
Plus found in the Unity community. Answers is
For serious creators looking to concepts to extending the interface.
bring their vision to life. where our developers help each other with
2.Roll-a-ball tutorial: concrete responses to specific questions.
(approximately 2 hours)
This tutorial introduces you to Unity develop-
ment by guiding you through creating a The forums are the central hub of our
Pro simple rolling ball game. It teaches you community discussions and chatter.
For professionals looking to Here you can voice your opinion, show what
profit from advanced customization many of the principles of working with Game
and complete flexibility. Objects, Components, Prefabs, Physics and you’re working on, and check out the cool
Scripting. things others are doing.

3.Mobile & Touch concepts: External community & forum sites are also
Essential information when creating content worth exploring for questions/discussions.
for mobile & touch devices. Two particularly worthwhile forums to visit
are Stackoverflow and Reddit.
!
Once you’ve completed the material above,
you’ll be ready to explore the wide range of There are also Unity user groups all over the
If you run into issues or need help
installing Unity - check this part of our tutorials in our learn section. We also offer world where you can get together with people
manual, which will guide you through in local groups to exchange ideas, work
the process step-by-step. extensive documentation about both scripting
and the editor interface, as well as a list of together on Unity projects and socialize.
best practice guides from our support Some groups also offer introductory
! seminars for new users.
engineers and R&D content team.

The Unity community also offers an Finally, if you need to find freelancers to help
extremely rich and diverse source of material. out, or when you are ready to build your team,
you’ll find the right talent on Unity Connect.

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 02 Resources
on the Asset Store
Additional Unity Learn from complete games
packages to download The R&D Content Team at Unity create complete projects, which can be downloaded on the
on the Asset Store: Asset Store, and accompanying learning material. You can use these projects to discover
Unity Technologies releases some and learn about new features and improve your Unity skills. The following is a project you can
features, which are not included in download.
the initial Unity installation, as fully
supported parts of the product available
for free on the Asset Store. Here’s list of
recommended packages to get:

TextMesh Pro:
The ultimate text solution for Unity.
It features advanced text rendering
with dynamic visual text styling, along
with greatly improved control over text
formatting and layout. It will be natively
integrated in future versions of Unity.

Anima 2D:
Helps you improve your 2D animation
skeletal workflow. It will be fully
integrated in future versions of Unity.

Standard Assets:
This collection of assets, scripts, and
example scenes can be used to kickstart
your Unity learning or as the foundation
for your own projects.
The package includes:
First Person Character Controller, Third Person
Character Controller, Car Controller, Aircraft Controller,
Particle Example Scene, Rollerball Controller, Tanks!!! Reference Project:
Sample 2D Platformer Scene, Camera Rigs
Cross Platform Input: Various mobile control rigs ready to
drag and drop into your scenes.
The Tanks!!! Reference Project shows how Unity Multiplayer can be implemented in a real
AI Examples: Showing how - with the proper set-up -
you can swap user input for a simple AI input
world environment, addressing common challenges like network latency and cheating.

This package has everything you need to understand and build the live multi-platform game
including code, assets, and walkthrough documentation. You can try the game now, on iOS,
Android, MacOS, or Windows store, and you can download the sample project for free on
the Asset Store We also offer a tutorial series teaching the game architecture and game
mechanics.

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03 Other support
resources
Need help with C# Best practices in Unity
scripting in Unity? Unity is a complex, feature-rich platform
If you are new to programming, we suggest offering many different solutions to differ-
visiting our dedicated scripting section, which ent problems you are likely to encounter
offers learning material on both beginner and in game development. As such, there are
advanced levels. If you’re already familiar many opinions on the best practices for
with programming but need help with specific organizing your projects, building game
coding questions, we recommend using our logic, for object oriented programming and
patterns, and for various techniques when
We’ve answers section, where you can post and find
answers to your coding questions from the working in the editor.

collected a community. We also have an extensive

scripting reference guide, which offers guid- Nevertheless, there are certain basic

few of these ance on the scripting API that Unity provides. principles, which if followed, will save you
time and help you focus more on the

basic best Are you a teacher? creative aspects of game developvment.

We’ve collected a few of these basic best
We offer a whole range of support options
practices from for teaching, including free licenses for
practices from our Enterprise Support en-
gineers and the Unity R&D Content team.
our Enterprise students and academic institutions and a
Curricular Framework for developing a
Support relevant set of courses.

engineers and Why not get a

certificate to validate
the Unity R&D your knowledge?
Content team. Unity offers an official certification program
The Courseware focuses on the foundational
skills essential to game production with Unity
and directly maps to preparation for the
Unity Certified Developer Exam. It’s also a
great solution if you are looking for a struc-
tured, self-study program to help you learn
to make games with Unity.

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04 Game making
lifecycle
Designing characters, gameplay mechanics and developing the logic are not the only aspects that matter in the lifecycle of
making a game. Here are some other important actions you can take, including descriptions and how Unity helps for each:

01 Sync
Sync your project across the team to enable
your team to create work together efficiently.
Unity Collaborate makes it easy to share your
project online, invite participants and back up
your projects.
02 Create
Create continuous platform-specific builds on the
relevant platforms as often as possible in order to
detect early technical issues and distribute faster to
your testers. Unity Cloud Build eliminates the burden
of asking a developer or build engineer to make a bi-
03 Understand nary version that testers can load on devices. You can
simultaneously and effortlessly build for iOS & Android
(and other platforms) in the cloud. And since Cloud
Understand the health of your game in order to fix Build is integrated with Collaborate, it works seamlessly
any problems and avoid bad ratings. As soon as for your entire team
your game is live, it’s important to capture issues
in real time. Unity Performance Reporting offers a
complete crash reporting and analysis system to
support that process.

04 Understand
05 Monetization Understand your audience and how they interact with your
content in order to ensure retention and success. Unity
Analytics, which is natively integrated with the Unity engine,
Choose the right monetization model at an early
provides invaluable insight into your audience’s behavior.
stage in order to make sure it is well integrated with
This insight helps you optimize your gameplay experiences
your game mechanics.For free-to-play games, Unity
and monetization strategies based on real-time game data.
has a built-in ads platform and offers codeless IAP
integration. Combine our plug & play Unity Ads, IAP Learn More:
and Analytics to improve your ARPDAU (Average Learn how Mindstorm, one of Pakistan’s leading game developers,
Revenue Per Daily Active User) and user retention. is using Unity’s built-in analytics to anticipate player needs and
continually improve their games.
Read the Mindstorm case study
Learn More:
Next Games is among the first to successfully monetize
Learn More:
a battle builder mobile game using rewarded video ads.
Learn how a hobbyist went from developing games in his spare time
Download their case study to find out how they created
to growing into a thriving mobile game studio with seven full-time
well-integrated rewarded video ads that have a high opt-in
employees and games with more than 10 million downloads.
rate and drive $0.06 average revenue per player per day.
Read the Twitter case study
Read the Next Games case study

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 Where to
Remember,
go next?
when you We hope this solution guide has helped you get a great
choose Unity start on your Unity development project. Remember,
when you choose Unity you’re never alone. Our
you’re never community pages are a great place to connect and
find solutions to the issues you may encounter. We
alone. also encourage you to follow us on Twitter, Facebook,
Youtube, Linkedin and on the Unity blog, where you’ll
find tips and guides to various facets of the Unity
features, as well as product news, updates and
inspirational case studies.

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