Unity: 2D Game Development

Make your Dream 2D Sprite Game Inside the Powerful Unity Editor

What you’ll learn

Unity: 2D Game Development

Create a 2D game exportable for multiple platforms including Android, iOS, and Windows
Work within the Unity editor to streamline game design and editing processes.
Import and use sprites, sound effects, music, and other assets inside of your game

Requirements

You should know basic programming or scripting to complete this course. We’ll be using C#.
Knowing how to work with graphic and audio editors will help you out. You can also navigate online for your art assets.

Description

This course will teach you what you need to know in order to make a 2D sprite-based game in Unity editor version 5.6 (the Latest Beta version at this time). The techniques used in this series are the same ones I used to make my own game Heart Battle for PC and mobile devices. Currently the course is in progress, it will be completed in the coming month and should be updated from time to time with new relevant content after that as well. The rough finished course list should look something like this when done.

2D Sprite Game Development in Unity

Understanding the Scene and Game Interface

Scene Hierarchy
What kinds of assets will you need to make a game (PNG Sprites, MP3 / WAV Audio)
Organizing Your Project
GameObjects and Transforms
Tags and Layers
Camera
Canvas Box / Circle / Polygon Colliders & Rigid Bodies (in action too)
Controlling Canvas Positioning (Anchors etc) Text Components Buttons Sliders Menu Screens Canvas Groups and Scalers
Audio Sources and Audio Listeners

Animation

Cutting Sprites for Use in Game Animations
Animation Controllers
Override Animation Controllers
Player Animation (Animation / Animator) Animation Trees)

Scripting

Setting Up Scripter of Choice for Unity (Visual Studio etc)
MonoBehaviours and Unity Lifecycle
Player Control Scripting
Instantiating Game Objects through Script
Ray casts and Collision Detection
Send / Broadcast Message
Building a Screen Fader (probably include my script)
Save / Load System (Check Asset Store for Example)
Coroutines
Defining and Activating Events
UnityEvents and Reorderable Event Lists
Editor Menu Items Changing Scenes

Services

Adding Ads to Game
Enabling Collaboration
Cloud Build

Configuring for Export

Building Project Settings
Mobile / Other Exports

Extra Scripts

OpenGameArt and Using Creative Commons Assets
Importing Materials through the Asset Store
Pixel Perfect Camera Scripts
Vexe Package
Pause Button
Tiled2Unity
Unity IAP

External Tools that May Help

Pyxel Edit
Sprite Illuminator
GIMP / Photoshop
Audacity

Who this course is for:

Enthusiast gamers who want to give making their own game a shot after playing other people’s games.
Developers or aspiring game designers interested in making a 2D game project and willing to do some C# scripting

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Unity: 2D Game Development