Chapter     9

Game Design and Logic—The Blueprint

The most common advice you’ll hear for beginning developers is, “To get better at making games, make more games.” An equally common response is, “Yes, but where do I start?”

Before sitting down at your computer, first you must have a blueprint of the game you are building. Game design is the process of creating this blueprint. Now that you are comfortable with the Unity editor and have some scripting under your belt, it’s time to take a look at game design and the game production process.

Note  Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. —Alexander Graham Bell

Game

What is a game anyway? For practical purposes the basic requirements for a game are the following:

  1. A player: Other ...

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