The Way We Play: Theory of Game Design

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M. KillickThe Way We Playhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8789-7_8

8. 2D Platformer Tutorial

Michael Killick¹  

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Cambridge, UK

 

For this chapter, you will now be shown how you can create the basics of a 2D platformer within Unity which can be used as the foundations for a future project or your first game. To set this project up, you will need to follow a similar process to the 3D first-person project from earlier in this book.

Set Up

If you haven’t done so already, you will need to download Unity Hub which is the home for all updates, your projects, and installations of Unity. You can find this download from the Unity website.

Once downloaded and installed, ...