Ouya Unity Game Development - Riches, Gary (Packt Publishing, 2013)
Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; Acknowledgment; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: What Is Ouya and Why Does It Matter?; The early years; The crash; The recovery; Home computers; Advancement of games consoles; The first indie console; Cellular games; The iPhone; The competitors; Current day; The Ouya; The release; Summary; Chapter 2: Setting Up Unity and the Ouya Plugin; Installing the Android SDK; Installing Java; Setting up the Android SDK; Setting up the Android NDK; Connecting Ouya to your Windows computer
Connecting Ouya to your Mac computerOuya Development Kit; Unity project; Bundle identifier; Setting up Ouya Panel; Ouya required prefabs; Building, running, and compiling an application; Summary; Chapter 3: Setting Up Your Game; Boo, C♯, or UnityScript; Boo; UnityScript; C♯; The project structure; Setting up your Scenes; Scripts and MonoDevelop; Scene progression; The Title Screen menu; Advancing to the game; Ouya controller support; Creating the level; Prefabs; Creating a Prefab; Materials; Multidimensional arrays; The BuildLevel method; Summary
Chapter 4: Adding a Character and Making Them MoveMaking the camera move; Making the character move; Ouya controller support; Animating the character; Summary; Chapter 5: Adding Finesse to Your Game; Texturing your Prefabs; Adding a background; Adding extra levels; Level complete detection; Moving to the next level; Restarting our level; Adding sounds; Summary; Chapter 6: Show Me the Money!; Setting up your purchase; Setting up your game; Implementing the Ouya payment framework; How to manage your purchases; Getting the list of products; Limiting your levels
Unlocking levels for people who have paidBuying your product; Adding a new menu item; The buy method; Hiding menu items; Submitting your game; Summary; Chapter 7: Building Cross-platform Games; Platform Dependent Compilation; Changing the TitleScreen scene; Removing In-App Purchases; Mobile controls; Summary; Index
A clear, concise, and practical guide that will teach you how to build your own console game and become an indie developer. This book is for game developers who are interested in developing games for the Ouya console on the Unity game engine. It is assumed that you have a basic understanding of Unity