OUYA Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide -- Table of Contents -- OUYA Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide -- Credits -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more -- Why subscribe? -- Free access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Time for action - heading -- What just happened? -- Pop quiz - heading -- Have a go hero - heading -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Downloading the color images of this book -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Experiencing the OUYA -- Setting up the console -- Networking -- Displaying games -- Time for action - installing your first game -- What just happened? -- Playing the OUYA -- Touch controls -- Summary -- 2. Installing Unity and the OUYA ODK -- Installing the game engine -- Time for action - setting up Unity -- What just happened? -- Downloading and configuring additional packages -- Time for action - downloading Java, the Android SDK, and the ODK -- What just happened? -- Modifying the PATH variable -- Time for action - editing PATH on Mac OS -- What just happened? -- Time for action - editing PATH on Windows -- What just happened? -- Installing packages with the Android SDK -- Time for action - installing Android packages -- What just happened? -- Configuring the USB connection -- Time for action - configuring the USB driver on Windows -- What just happened? -- Time for action - exporting OUYA packages from Unity -- What just happened? -- Time for action - importing packages into a new workspace -- What just happened? -- Pop quiz - small parts of a whole -- Summary -- 3. Diving into Development -- Creating a 3D text prototype.

Time for action - manipulating the scene -- What just happened? -- Time for action - creating and scripting 3D text -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - flexing your new muscle -- Creating a custom function -- Time for action - writing a function -- What just happened? -- Time for action - capturing data with return values -- What just happened? -- Time for action - controlling functions with parameters -- What just happened? -- Making our scripts interactive -- Time for action - adding keyboard interaction to scripts -- What just happened? -- Deploying our code on OUYA -- Time for action - running your first test on OUYA -- What just happened? -- Pop quiz - hello world -- Summary -- 4. Moving Your Player with Controller Input -- Creating an interactive marble prototype -- Time for action - setting the scene -- What just happened? -- Time for action - importing a Unity input script -- What just happened? -- Time for action - turning input into movement -- What just happened? -- Time for action - movement with the OUYA SDK -- What just happened? -- Adding additional functionality to our marble -- Time for action - adding button features -- What just happened? -- Time for action - improving the camera -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - creating your own camera -- Completing our game -- Time for action - adding a goal zone -- What just happened? -- Pop quiz - coming full circle -- Summary -- 5. Enhancing Your Game with Touch Dynamics -- Using the touchpad to interact with buttons -- Creating the cannonball prototype -- Time for action - creating a cannon prefab -- What just happened? -- Time for action - creating an interactive button -- What just happened? -- Time for action - adding an impulse force to a rigidbody component -- What just happened? -- Using cursor data to add touch input to games.

Time for action - reading mouse position in Unity -- What just happened? -- Time for action - creating a vector from cursor movement -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - capturing touch input over multiple frames -- Incorporating touch data into your mechanics -- Time for action - hiding the cursor on the screen -- What just happened? -- Time for action - creating a target for the cannon -- What just happened? -- Pop quiz - touching the sky -- Summary -- 6. Saving Data to Create Longer Games -- Creating collectibles to save -- Time for action - creating a basic collectible -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - make your prototype stand out with materials -- Time for action - scripting the collectible -- What just happened? -- Time for action - accessing the scripts on other objects -- What just happened? -- Saving data with the Unity engine -- Time for action - saving data with PlayerPrefs -- What just happened? -- Time for action - setting up a GUI Text object -- What just happened? -- Using save data in multiple scenes -- Time for action - counting cannonballs -- What just happened? -- Time for action - checking high scores in a new scene -- What just happened? -- Time for action - displaying high score values -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - adding a reset button to your high score list -- Saving data with the OUYA API -- Pop quiz - saving (and loading) the day -- Summary -- 7. Expanding Your Gameplay with In-app Purchases -- The different kinds of in-app purchases -- Entitlements -- Consumables -- Setting up a product on the OUYA developer portal -- Time for action - preparing your game for in-app purchasing -- What just happened? -- Coding in-app purchasing in your game -- Time for action - creating a purchase screen -- What just happened? -- Time for action - creating your first purchase function -- What just happened?.

Have a go hero - initializing product variables dynamically -- Time for action - saving and loading successful purchases -- What just happened? -- Time for action - reflecting unlocked functionality in games -- What just happened? -- Adding polish with Unity Asset Store packages -- Time for action - adding explosions to your cannonballs -- What just happened? -- Pricing your in-app purchases -- Setting the price of your full game -- Picking a monetization model -- Have a go hero - tying it all together with more products -- Pop quiz - talking shop -- Summary -- 8. Polishing and Prepping Your Game for Deployment -- Meeting the OUYA content guidelines -- Time for action - containing game elements within the safe zone -- What just happened? -- Time for action - creating icons for your game -- What just happened? -- Following the Unity Submission Checklist -- Polishing Unity projects in depth -- Creating your game flow -- Time for action - creating a title screen -- What just happened? -- Time for action - creating a loss screen -- What just happened? -- Creating a tutorial -- Time for action - creating a tutorial scene -- What just happened? -- Time for action - linking your tutorial to your game -- What just happened? -- Creating a following camera in Unity -- Time for action - creating a following third-person camera -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - add rotation controls to your camera -- Time for action - adding audio to your game -- What just happened? -- Packaging your project for submission -- Time for action - creating your game on the developer portal -- What just happened? -- Pop quiz - the end of the beginning -- Summary -- 9. Blazing Your Own Development Trail -- Expanding your skills with advanced challenges -- Working with shaders in depth -- Time for action - creating a custom font with a text shader -- What just happened?.

Time for action - creating a fire effect with a particle shader -- What just happened? -- Advanced data saving -- Time for action - saving the player's position -- What just happened? -- Making a more polished GUI -- Time for action - creating a reusable GUI Skin -- What just happened? -- Time for action - making an automatically scaling GUI texture -- What just happened? -- Lighting your scenes perfectly -- Time for action - adding realism to your scene with lightmapping -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - experiment with Light Probes in Unity Pro -- Making your world feel real with Physics Materials -- Time for action - applying an ice Physics Material -- What just happened? -- Have a go hero - playing with other Physics Materials -- Have a go hero - making Physics Materials react realistically -- Popular game development methodologies -- The Waterfall model -- The Agile methodology -- The Scrum methodology -- Basic design patterns for larger code projects -- The Singleton pattern -- The Factory pattern -- The Command pattern -- Have a go hero - implement one of the preceding patterns -- Getting started with version control -- Time for action - creating a BitBucket repository -- What just happened? -- Time for action - preparing Unity for version control -- What just happened? -- Time for action - making your first commit and push -- What just happened? -- Finding your own answers to questions online -- Stack Overflow -- OUYA Forums -- Unity Forums -- Pop quiz - leaving the nest -- Summary -- A. Pop Quiz Answers -- Chapter 2, Installing Unity and the OUYA ODK -- Pop quiz - small parts of a whole -- Chapter 3, Diving into Development -- Pop quiz - hello world -- Chapter 4, Moving Your Player with Controller Input -- Pop quiz - coming full circle -- Chapter 5, Enhancing Your Game with Touch Dynamics -- Pop quiz - touching the sky.

Chapter 6, Saving Data to Create Longer Games.