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Master everything you need to build a 2D game using Unity 5 by developing a complete RPG game framework!Key FeaturesExplore the new features of Unity 5 and recognize obsolete code and elementsDevelop and build a complete 2D retro RPG with a conversation system, inventory, random map battles, full game menus, and soundThis book demonstrates how to use the new Unity UI system effectively through detailed C\# scripts with full explanations

Seriously funny contemporary urban fantasy fiction.Luck. If only you could bottle it...Matt Danmor’s brush with death uncovers a fantastical truth, plunging him into a world of intrigue and chaos.With his ex, Silvy, back at his side and Kylah from The Dept. of Fimmigration ever watchful, he stumbles into a plot to undermine civilisation across several worlds. Matt is faced with a simple choice. Believe that everything he se...

The ultimate guide for sales managers and leaders ready to elevate their game.Sales leadership is one of the most demanding roles in business. Balancing ambitious targets, team dynamics, and a rapidly changing environment leaves little room for reflection or growth. Many leaders default to reactive management—solving problems as they arise, relying on quick fixes, and chasing short-term wins—without ever addressing the real barriers to lasting success.S...

Described by one contemporary as the 'sweet singer of The Temple', George Herbert has long been recognised as a lover of music. Nevertheless, Herbert's own participation in seventeenth-century musical culture has yet to be examined in detail. This is the first extended critical study to situate Herbert's roles as priest, poet and musician in the context of the musico-poetic activities of members of his extended family, from the song culture surrounding William Herbert and Mary Sidney to th...

If you have C# knowledge but now want to become truly confident in creating fully functional 2D RPG games with Unity, then this book will show you everything you need to know.

Building games with Unity is hard enough without having to stand up and go and make a coffee each time you want to just build your project or find out days/weeks down the line that some change you made while building your dream has incurred a debt that means your project cannot be built for one of your target platforms without a lot of rework.Through automation, many of these hardships can be detected early and free up time and stress by monitoring your project as it is being creat...

They say a picture is worth a thousand words…With a job he hates and his personal life less than rosy, Darren Trott’s world is turned upside down by an unlikely and desperate request from a place he thought he’d forgotten.Or hoped he had.Now, with the help of warrior queens, a mischievous bwbach, and other, otherworldly allies, he must confront his past to save both his world, and the one he’s drawn to.But with enemies closing in, Darren mus...

Returning to the small town where he crash-landed in 1963, Ishmael Jones is in search of answers. But his investigation is derailed by a brutal murder.“I think something very bad and very dangerous has come to your little town, Inspector …”As long-buried memories from his hidden past begin to resurface, Ishmael Jones and his partner Penny feel compelled to return to the small country town where Ishmael crash-landed in 1963; the place where his memories bega...

“This dystopia feels intimate and creeps under the skin.” — Reedsy DiscoveryShimmer makes you forget—until it takes everything.In New Albion, obedience comes at a price.Anouk Walker has never been good at following the rules. Sharp-tongued, stubbornly loyal and dependent on shimmer, the drug that helps keep New Albion compliant, she’s trying to survive in a world where almost everyone has learned to look the other way.

Kylah Porter trusts her partner Matt, but his special agent skills? Not so much.When vampire murders in the Fae realm get mixed up with human sorcery, it’s clear there’s a serial killer on the loose.Faced with a reformed bloodsucker cult and a quirky bookshop where the written words have a life of their own, can Matt prove he’s not a walking disaster and worthy of his Departmental status before chaos reigns, or is it drips, over everything?Or will his luck, and his ...

This volume delivers a history of internationalism at the League of Nations and the United Nations (UN), with a focus on the period from the 1920s to the 1970s, when the nation-state ascended to global hegemony as a political formation. Combining global, regional and local scaes of analysis, the essays presented here provide an interpretation of the two institutions — and their complex interrelationship — that is planetary in scale but also pioneeringly multi-local. Our central argument is...

No Longer Human (1948, Ningen Shikkaku / A Shameful Life / Confessions of a Faulty Man) was an attack on the traditions of Japan, capturing the postwar crisis of Japanese cultural identity. Framed by an epilogue and prologue, the story is told in the form three notebooks left by Ōba Yōzō, whose calm exterior hides his tormented soul.Osamu Dazai was a Japanese author who is considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th century Japan. A number of his most popular works, such...