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Unity 5.x 2D Game Development Blueprints

By : Francesco Sapio
Book Image

Unity 5.x 2D Game Development Blueprints

By: Francesco Sapio

Overview of this book

Flexible, powerful, and full of rich features, Unity 5 is the engine of choice for AAA 2D and 3D game development. With comprehensive support for over 20 different platforms, Unity boasts a host of great new functions for making 2D games. Learn how to leverage these new options into awesome 2D games by building three complete game projects with the Unity game tutorials in this hands-on book. Get started with a quick overview of the principle concepts and techniques needed for making 2D games with Unity, then dive straight in to practical development. Build your own version of Super Mario Brothers as you learn how to animate sprites, work with physics, and construct brilliant UIs in order to create a platformer game. Go on a quest to create a RPG game discovering NPC design, event triggers, and AI programming. Finally, put your skills to the test against a real challenge - designing and constructing a complex strategy game that will draw on and develop all your previously learned skills.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Unity 5.x 2D Game Development Blueprints
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Tiled for 2D level design


In this chapter, we are going to finish the game that we started in the previous chapters. To begin, let's start by designing an even cooler level!

Tip

Before we start creating our level, it's good practice to design our level on paper, even if it's some sketches of different ideas.

We will be using a third-party tool named Tiled for this purpose. Tiled is a free 2D map editor that will save you a lot of time working on your levels. It is a tool that makes it much easier to create a 2D level, instead of doing it within Unity by duplicating game objects. Here is the download link for it: http://www.mapeditor.org/download.html.

Lastly, in order to use what you will create in Tiled, you also need to download another program called Tiled2Unity. It is a utility that allows us to import levels that have been created in Tiled, as prefabs into Unity. Here is the link to download Tiled2Unity: http://www.seanba.com/tiled2unity.

After installing both programs, we can start by opening...