• A much more complex affair, available only on specialized
mobile gaming consoles, and created by companies with access
to expensive dev kits for said mobile gaming consoles
This split was the result of both hardware complexity and distribu‐
tion availability. If you wanted to make a game that was in any way
complex (and by complex we mean featured the incredible ability to
have more than one thing moving on the screen at a time), you
needed the more advanced computing power available only on
expensive portable consoles, like Nintendo’s handheld devices.
Because the console owners also owned the distribution channels
for the games, and wanted to have a high degree of control, getting
permission to make games for more capable hardware became a
challenge.
However, as more powerful hardware became cheaper over time,
more options opened up for developers. In 2008, Apple made its
iPhone available to software developers, and in the same year Goo‐
gle’s Android platform became available. Over the years, iOS and
Android have become extremely capable platforms, and mobile
games are the most popular video games in the world.
These days, a mobile game is typically one of three things:
• A simple game, with carefully chosen interactions, graphics, and
controlled complexity, because the game design was best sup‐
ported by these facets
• A much more complex affair, available for anything ranging
from specialized mobile game consoles to smartphones
• A mobile port of a game that debuted on a console or PC
You can use Unity to do all three of these; in this book, we’ll be con‐
centrating on the first approach. After exploring Unity and how it’s
used, we’ll step through the creation of two games that fit those fac‐
ets.
Hello, Unity
Now that we’ve elaborated a bit on what we’re trying to make, let’s
talk about what we’re going to make it with: the Unity game engine.
4 | Chapter 1: Introducing Unity
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