Unity Tutorial: Creating a Scroller/Platformer Game

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Hi, my name is Sebastian. Welcome to this series on creating a 2D platformer game in unity.
I hope you enjoy.

Full playlist here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFt_AvWsXl0e-g21S-MiPArfEhlv9pUgC
Here is the current list of videos (the list continues two posts down). Currently up to part 6.

Part one: Setting up a controller with collisions.

Part two: Further improving the controller

Part three: Adding a player model and setting up walking/running animations with Mecanim blend trees.

Part four: More work with Mecanim; jumping and sliding.

Part five: Implementing a simple health system with ragdoll deaths.

Part six: Wall jumping

Part seven: Moving platforms and respawning

Part eight: Checkpoints and loading levels

Cheers :slight_smile:

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Love it!

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In the very early stages of developing a Platformer myself so this is fantastic!

Keep up the good work, can’t wait for the other parts!

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Part six: Wall jumping

Part seven: Moving platforms and respawning

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Just uploaded part 3.
In this part we add in a character and set up some of its animations, as well as make improvements to the player’s collision detection.

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Just released part 4, in which we use Unity’s animation system Mecanim to set up running and sliding animations.

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You need to visit the NYC area so I can buy you a few nice cold beers! Thanks for these. terrific work.

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Hey man,

Many thanks, great tutorial. Have you got any plans for a 3D tutorial? Congrats, once again!

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Thanks man, no problem. I don’t have any plans at the moment, but I’m open to suggestions!

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Great tutorial. I’ve never used Unity before and found it to be easily understandable and was able to work through all 4. I look forward to seeing what you bring to the table with part 5.

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Great tutorial !! Thanks !
waiting for more tutorial !:stuck_out_tongue:

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This is exactly what I’ve been looking for. I’m coming from ImpactJS and I’ve been struggling to understand how to do platformers “the Unity way”. Thanks for putting these together!

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Very good tutorial. Congratulations.
I would like to make a few suggestions:

  • A tutorial by implementing double jump;
  • A video that explains how to make the character grab the edge of a platform
  • A tutorial that teaches how to change the animation when the character is near the edge of a platform (animation that will fall, for example);
  • And how, for the character jump on a wall, and the wall he can use it as a boost to jump higher.

Well, they are small somentes suggestions of features that are widely used in platform games. And I think most would enrich this series.

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Thanks for the suggestions! I’ll definitely cover all of those at some point in the series.

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Just wanted to add one more thanks for making these. Easily the best 2D series I’ve seen so far, and this was incredibly helpful with a project I’ve been working on. Really looking forward to the rest of the series!

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great job, keep up the good work.

Your tutorials are easy to follow (although a little bit fast in terms of typing while talking, but nothing a bit of pause/play cant handle on my end :slight_smile: )

looking forward to part 5

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Part 5 is now complete and added to the list.

Thanks phase and tasygraphgames!
Sorry about the speed, I just don’t want the videos to drag on. Glad you’re still managing to follow along :wink:

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There is now a part six, which covers wall jumping.

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Thanks for sharing these, they are really helpful.
I would love to see one about dealing with slopes someday. :slight_smile:

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Slopes are tricky!
I’ll see what I can do :wink: