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Unity 2017 2D Game Development Projects

By : Francesco Sapio, Lauren S. Ferro
Book Image

Unity 2017 2D Game Development Projects

By: Francesco Sapio, Lauren S. Ferro

Overview of this book

<p>2D games are everywhere! Timeless and popular, 2D games represent a substantial segment of the games market. The Unity engine has revolutionized the gaming industry, by making it easier for game developers to create quality games on a budget. If you are looking for a guide to create 2D games using Unity 2017, look no further. With this book, you will learn all the essentials of 2D game development by creating three epic games in a step-by-step manner throughout the course of this book. </p><p> </p><p>The first game will have you collecting as many cakes as possible. The second will transport you to outer space to traverse as far as possible while avoiding enemy spaceships. The last game will have you running and jumping across platforms to collect coins and other exotic items. </p><p> </p><p>Throughout all these three games, you will create characters, make them move, and create some enemies. And then, of course, write code to destroy them!. After showing you the necessities of creating a game, this book will then help you to porting the game to a mobile platform, and provide a path to publish it on the stores. </p><p> </p><p>By the end of this book, you will not only have created three complete great games, but be able to apply your knowledge to create and deploy your own games.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Importing tilesets into Unity with Tiled2Unity

Now, this is where Tiled2Unity comes in handy. Once you have created your Tilemap in Tiled, we need to bring it into Unity so that the player will be able to interact with it.

Generally, most of the things that we have completed using third-party software can be done manually within Unity itself; however, third-party tools offer a way to increase efficiency, and in some cases, the output. In saying that, I do encourage you to explore the ways that you could complete these tasks within Unity, even if they are time-consuming. In the event that such programs are no longer available, it is useful to know the "manual" way to achieve the same results.

When you open Tiled2Unity, you will see a window like the following screenshot:

While initially this may be quite daunting, the whole process is very simple. To import our Tilemap...