Metroidvania Toolkit: Make a 2D Action Platformer in Unity

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: House Keeping/Course Overview/Unity Download and Install

Lecture 2: Unity Editor Walkthrough

Lecture 3: Introduction to Gameobjects and the Transform component

Lecture 4: Building a Level and Parent/Child Relationship with Gameobjects

Lecture 5: Introduction to Coding

Lecture 6: How Computers Read Code

Lecture 7: Writing Our First Script

Lecture 8: Reviewing the Movement Script

Lecture 9: How to Read API Documentation

Lecture 10: Bools and Conditional Checks

Lecture 11: Floats, Ints, and Trigger Colliders

Lecture 12: Setting Up UI and Discussing String References

Lecture 13: Using Vectors, Random Values, and Lights

Lecture 14: Brief Introduction to Particle System

Lecture 15: Finishing the Gameplay Loop and Building Our First Game

Chapter 2: Creating a Character with Complete Movement and Animations

Lecture 1: Setting Up the Foundation for Metroidvania Tools

Lecture 2: Solving for Basic Movement, Else Statements, and Return Methods

Lecture 3: Solving for Facing the Correct Direction and Sprinting

Lecture 4: Solving for a Jump and Introduction to Layers and Raycasts

Lecture 5: Allowing Multiple Jumps and Protecting Jumping While Falling

Lecture 6: Limiting the Jump and Fall Speeds

Lecture 7: Giving Jump More Height When Button Held

Lecture 8: How to Rig a 2D Character

Lecture 9: Setting Up IKs for Better Bone Control

Lecture 10: Introduction to Animations, Keyframes, and Tweening

Lecture 11: Using the Animator Component to Trigger Animations

Lecture 12: Blend Trees and Setting up Jump/Falling Animations

Lecture 13: Adding and Animating a Glide Ability

Lecture 14: Coroutines and the Crouching Ability

Lecture 15: Animating and Controlling the Crouch State

Lecture 16: Creating a Dash Ability

Lecture 17: Animating the Dash Ability

Lecture 18: Wall Sliding and Wall Jumping

Lecture 19: Animating and Triggering the Wall Slide

Lecture 20: Refactoring Input Into One Script

Chapter 3: Shooting Projectiles and Object Pooling

Lecture 1: Introduction to Lists and Arrays

Lecture 2: Introduction to Scriptable Objects

Lecture 3: Introduction to Object Pooling System

Lecture 4: Getting Started with the Weapon Script

Lecture 5: Instantiating Projectiles at Barrel of Gun

Lecture 6: Moving and Placing Projectiles

Lecture 7: Setting Up the Weapon Aiming Component

Lecture 8: Solving for Firing Projectiles Forward

Lecture 9: Commenting Complicated Code and Unity Inspector Tips

Lecture 10: Solving for 8 Directional Aiming

Lecture 11: Aiming at Closest Target to Player

Lecture 12: Adding Automatic Firing Capabilities to Weapon

Lecture 13: Adding More Functionality to Object Pooler

Lecture 14: Switching Weapons and Creating Second Projectile

Lecture 15: Setting Up the Grappling Hook

Lecture 16: Finishing the Grappling Hook

Chapter 4: Level and Game Management Tools

Lecture 1: Setting Up Camera Movement

Lecture 2: Finishing Camera Movement, Fixing a Bug in Dash Script

Lecture 3: Creating Platform Manager Script

Lecture 4: Creating a Falling Platform Script and Introduction to Enums

Lecture 5: One Way Platforms and On Collision Enter

Lecture 6: Creating a Ladder

Lecture 7: Setting Up Moving Platforms

Lecture 8: Custom Editor Tools for Moving Platforms

Lecture 9: Creating Wind and Water Gameobjects with Area Effectors

Lecture 10: Setting Up Level Bounds and Restricting Camera Movement

Lecture 11: Instantiating the Player into the Scene

Lecture 12: Persisting Character Direction when Instantiating

Lecture 13: Instantiating the Player into the Scene at Multiple Locations

Lecture 14: Creating a Door to Switch Scenes

Lecture 15: Creating a Fade Screen to Load Scenes

Chapter 5: Creating and Managing a World Map and Mini-Map

Lecture 1: Setting Up the Parameters for Scalable Rooms

Lecture 2: Mini Map Camera and Creating Rooms for World Map

Lecture 3: Creating a Player Indicator for Mini Map

Lecture 4: Creating Icons for Mini Map and Setting Up Camera

Lecture 5: Adding Movement to the Player Indicator

Lecture 6: Mini Map Camera Follow and Clamping

Lecture 7: Setting Up the World Map Display Toggle

Lecture 8: Moving and Positioning the Big Map

Lecture 9: Setting Up Fog of War

Lecture 10: Completing Fog of War

Chapter 6: Enemy AI

Lecture 1: Setting Up Enemy AI and Enemy Movment

Lecture 2: Turning Enemy Around on Collision and Leftward Movement

Lecture 3: Preventing Enemy from Falling and Turning Around on Holes

Lecture 4: Rotating and Moving Enemies Around Platforms

Lecture 5: Rotating and Moving Enemies Around Platforms Part 2

Lecture 6: Rotating and Moving Enemies Around Platforms Part 3

Lecture 7: Solving for Enemy Jumping

Lecture 8: Creating Flying Movement and Player Detector

Lecture 9: Setting Up Everything for Melee Attacks

Lecture 10: Setting Up Everything for Projectile Attacks

Chapter 7: Health, Damage, Pickups, Ability Acquisition, and Save/Load System

Lecture 1: Setting Up Health, Damage, and Player Invulnerability State

Lecture 2: Setting Up Projectile Damage and Random Drops

Lecture 3: Item Pickups and Creating Health Items

Lecture 4: Creating a Player Health Bar

Lecture 5: Acquiring Abilities Through Pickups

Lecture 6: Refining Player Damage and Creating an Out of Bounds System

Lecture 7: Setting Up Player Death