[Unity 6] Learning by Doing: Dr. Go's 2D Platformer Game Development

Section (1) - 1 Project Basics

To create a platformer game, create a 2D project and load the map you want to use in your game by importing the *.unitypackage file.

Section (1) - 2 Player Characters

Learn how to control Movement, such as movement and jumping of the player character in a platformer game, and play the player's animations.

Learn how to implement additional jumping features, such as pre-pressing the jump key, and how to implement movement and landing effects using particle systems.

Section (1) - 3 Camera, Background

Learn how to set the player and camera's range of movement within the stage, and how to create a camera that tracks the player character.

Learn how to scroll through your wallpapers.

Section (2) - 1 Tile

Learn how to create unbreakable tiles, unbreakable bouncing tiles, breakable tiles, and item tiles that interact when collided with a player's head.

Section (2) - 2 Platform

Learn how to create moving platforms, falling platforms, jumping platforms, and passing platforms that interact when collided with the player's feet.

Section (2) - 3 Hidden Tilemap

Learn how to create areas that become transparent when collided with by the player, and opaque when not collided, for use as obscuring hidden areas of the map, items, etc.

Section (3) - 1 Obstacle

Learn how to create obstacles such as thorns that can be placed in specific locations, spinning saw blades that move along a designated path, and axes that swing around a weight, as well as how to reduce player health/instantly kill players based on the obstacle's characteristics.

Section (3) - 2 Player Features and Items

Implements the player's health, invincibility, and ranged attack capabilities, and stores health, coins, number of projectiles, and whether or not stars have been acquired.

You will also learn how to craft Coin, Invincibility, Health Regeneration, Projectile +1, and Star items.

Section (3) - 3 Player Info UI

Section (3) - Learn how to create a UI that displays the player's health, coins, projectiles, and star information created in 2 on the screen so that the player can check it.

Section (4) - 1 Props

Learn how to create a sign that outputs guidance text to the player when they collide, an item box that randomly generates a desired number of items, and a destination for clearing a stage.

Section (4) - 2 Enemies

Learn how to make a mushroom that moves along a designated path, a flower that periodically spawns projectiles, and a frog that uses physics to jump+move forward, changing direction whenever it hits a wall.

Section (5) - 1 Intro, SelectLevel Scene

You will learn about the Intro scene which displays the title screen, and how to control the game by checking if each level has been unlocked, whether stars have been earned, and selecting the level you want to play.

Section (5) - 2 Game Scene

Learn how to create settings and pop-up UI for pausing, failing a level (player death), completing a level, and starting a level.

Learn how to use PlayerPrefs provided by Unity to load data for each level in the SelectLevel scene and save the data when the level is completed in the Game scene.