By: Dom Brassey
Making location-based games with our Maps SDK for Unity is now easier than ever. Our friends at Devslopes just released a new developer training course on Udemy: Unity 3D location based-game development with Mapbox. The course features step-by-step video instruction to help you build two location-based AR games using our Maps SDK for Unity.
Take the course and learn how to bring interactive tabletop and world-case AR experiences to life.
World-scale: PocketDroids GO
PocketDroids GO is a location-based game that uses your real-world location as a map for a world-scale game around you. To win, you must use an interactive game map on your iOS or Android device, to find and capture rogue robots in your real-world surroundings.
With our Maps SDK for Unity, you can build the game environment without that much programming. We provide the terrain, streets and street names, buildings, parks, and bridges — and Unity renders the game landscape. That means you can focus on customizing gameplay and styling your gamescape with Studio.
- Start building this game: https://www.udemy.com/mapbox-unity-3d-essentials
- Learn more about using the LocationProvider Script to use determine a user’s position
Tabletop: Drenches of War
The second tutorial shows you how to build a tabletop AR game called Drenches of War. In this game, you must defend nearby buildings from enemy tanks determined to ruin them with gooey paint. You must launch water balloons at the tanks, or surrender to a future of dripping technicolor.
In Drenches of War, you can choose any location for gameplay. Sitting in Casablanca? Try playing in San Francisco or Madrid. When you play the game on your Android or iOS device, an image of the game landscape will render on your screen, anchored on any tabletop in front of you. You can change the perspective of the scene by walking around the table.
We provide the landscape, so you are free to focus on customizing 3D models and other parts of the game experience. As Devslopes instructor Ben Kimble points out:
Mapbox makes it really easy to get started with AR. They even have a pre-fab that we can just drag onto our scene, and get going with it. I don’t think it could get any easier. And the coolest part is we pull in real map data, which means that in a matter of seconds, we can update our entire world.
Here’s a peek at game development in Unity:
To get started building these games, visit Udemy today and enroll in the course for free!
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