How to make a Top Down view on 2D.

Unity Engine
1

Hi. Me and my friend were coding a game and we would like to make the camera view a 2D game from top looking at the floor (The type of view we area talking about is like Hotline Miami type). We did do some searching but couldn’t find much. Help would be appreciated.

2

if you are using 2d, the topview look will come from your assets. Make the scenery as if it was drawn from a topview perspective.

3

A tile system would be recommended for a game like that.

–Eric

4

Thanks! One question. How would I make a movement system for something like that. Since I am making it just LOOK top down it adds some difficulty when making movement.

5

What sort of movement do you want to do?

–Eric

6

Don’t try to run before you can walk.

I googled the game you mentiond, it’s a straight forward 2d game.

First off watch some youtube videos on the game, I’m not sure if you want to do that game, this will give you an idea of how the player is .controlled, e.get 4 ways 8 ways etc.

If you have some spites of a player use them first, I’m not a fan of coding this way around but for beginners it more visual.

    • look into controlling the player on screen first.
    • shooting

  3. figure out what sort of map you would like, Eric and I have different ideas on this, bet, this game doesn’t have a lot of enemies that I can see, so you might get way with only displaying a portion of the map.

3 is a little in the future, start small and build up, too many beginners codes try to do everything at once, don’t fall into the trap we all have done, at least there is two of you, work as a team, help each other and most of all

ENJOY YOURSELF!!