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Advanced Unity 2D: Platformer Player Movement

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Overview

Learn everything you would need to know about creating player movement and behaviors into 2D platformer-style games.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Using the exercise files
1. Working with Input
  • Input introduction
  • Building an input manager
  • Abstracting axis input
  • Building an input state class
  • Tracking button release states
  • Reading from the input state class
  • Building multiple input managers for multi-player games
2. Walking and Running
  • Setting up the first character
  • Building a test level
  • Building the abstract player behavior
  • Changing the direction the player is facing
  • Saving direction state
  • Adding walking to the player
  • Making the player run
3. Player Animations
  • Managing player animation states
  • Connecting player animation states
4. Managing Player Collisions
  • Working with script execution order
  • Building a collision state manager
  • Debugging player collision state
5. Jumping
  • Making the player jump
  • Limiting jump
  • Adding the jump animation
  • Adding double jump
  • Building a double jump effect
  • Adding long jump
6. Ducking
  • Adding ducking to the player
  • Adding the ducking animation
  • Disable other player behaviors when ducking
7. Wall Collision
  • Building walls for the test level
  • Detecting player wall collisions
  • Adding wall collision animation
8. Sliding Down Walls
  • Sticking to walls
  • Sliding down walls
  • Speeding up wall slide
  • Adding a wall slide effect
9. Jumping Off Walls
  • Making the player jump off walls
  • Cleaning up the wall jump
  • Testing out wall-to-wall jumping
10. Items
  • Picking up items
  • Equipping items
  • Changing animation based on item
  • Adding additional item animation states
11. Firing Projectiles
  • Creating a fireball
  • Destroying the fireball
  • Shooting the fireball projectile
  • Cleaning up the fireball projectile
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Jesse Freeman

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