Learn To Code By Making a 2D Platformer in Unity

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Downloading & Installing Unity

Lecture 3: Unity Workspace Overview

Chapter 2: The First Level

Lecture 1: Importing Spritesheets/Artwork

Lecture 2: Creating Our First Level & Platforms

Lecture 3: Creating & Using Prefabs

Chapter 3: The Player

Lecture 1: Creating the Player

Lecture 2: Creating Your First Script

Lecture 3: Moving The Player

Lecture 4: Making The Player Jump

Lecture 5: Finding The Ground

Lecture 6: Animating the Player / Creating animations for the player

Lecture 7: Setting up The Animation Controller

Lecture 8: Controlling Animations with Code

Lecture 9: Flipping The Player

Chapter 4: The Camera

Lecture 1: Basic Camera Control

Lecture 2: Moving the Camera with Code

Lecture 3: Using Lerp to smoothly position the camera

Lecture 4: Fixing On Screen Lines

Lecture 5: Stop Player Sticking To Walls

Chapter 5: Dying & Respawning

Lecture 1: Creating a Kill Plane

Lecture 2: Making Checkpoints

Lecture 3: Respawning at Checkpoint

Lecture 4: Controlling Respawns with a Level Manager

Lecture 5: Delaying Respawn with Co-Routines

Chapter 6: Level Pieces

Lecture 1: Creating Spike Trap

Lecture 2: Particle Effects

Lecture 3: Removing Game Objects

Lecture 4: Moving Platforms

Lecture 5: Sticking Player to Platform

Lecture 6: Creating a Moving Danger

Lecture 7: Using Sorting Layers

Lecture 8: Collectibles

Chapter 7: User Interface (UI)

Lecture 1: Creating a UI & Tracking Coins

Lecture 2: Adding Health to UI

Lecture 3: Tracking Player Health

Lecture 4: Applying Health To Our UI Using Switch Statements

Chapter 8: Making Enemies

Lecture 1: Creating & Animating Our First Enemy

Lecture 2: Controlling Spider & Hurting The Player

Lecture 3: Creating A Patrolling Enemy

Lecture 4: Destroying Enemies

Lecture 5: Bouncing On Enemies

Lecture 6: Modifying Enemy Stomp

Lecture 7: Make Enemies & Items Respawn

Lecture 8: Using Arrays to Store Objects

Lecture 9: Using For Loops to Reset Objects

Lecture 10: Resetting Spider Specifics

Chapter 9: Player Systems

Lecture 1: Getting Knocked Back by Enemies

Lecture 2: Becoming Invincible on Knockback

Lecture 3: Adding a Lives System

Lecture 4: Picking Up Extra Lives

Lecture 5: Creating a Game Over Screen

Lecture 6: Creating a Health Pickup

Lecture 7: Bonus Life For Coins

Chapter 10: Sound

Lecture 1: Adding Sound Effects To Our Player

Lecture 2: Adding Sound Effects For Coins

Lecture 3: Adding Music

Lecture 4: Changing Music In-Game

Chapter 11: Background

Lecture 1: Adding Static & Scrolling Background

Chapter 12: Improving Gameplay

Lecture 1: Adding Circle Colliders To Stop Player & Enemies Getting Stuck

Lecture 2: Controlling Player Speed On Platforms

Chapter 13: More Levels

Lecture 1: Setting Up New Levels

Lecture 2: Creating A Level Exit Point

Lecture 3: Animating Level Exit

Lecture 4: Smooth Level Transitions

Lecture 5: Carrying Values Between Levels Using PlayerPrefs

Lecture 6: Creating A Level Select Area

Lecture 7: More Level Doors – Adding Text To In-Game Objects

Lecture 8: Locking & Unlocking Levels

Chapter 14: Menus

Lecture 1: Creating a Main Menu

Lecture 2: Adding Code To The Menu

Lecture 3: Adding Menu to Game Over Screen

Lecture 4: Creating a Pause Menu

Lecture 5: Finishing Pause Menu

Lecture 6: Paused TimeScale Fix

Lecture 7: Creating Custom Input For Pause Button

Chapter 15: Boss Battle

Lecture 1: Creating Boss Level & Boss Character

Lecture 2: Creating Boss Battle Script

Lecture 3: Boss Battle Phases & Damaging The Boss

Lecture 4: Winning The Battle

Lecture 5: Resetting Boss On Respawn

Chapter 16: Finishing The Game

Lecture 1: Building Standalone Game

Chapter 17: BONUS CONTENT

Lecture 1: BONUS – Fixing Multiple Deaths Bug