Make a 2D Action Platformer in Unreal Engine 5

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Course Orientation

Lecture 1: Curriculum Overview

Lecture 2: Why make 2D Games with Unreal Engine?

Lecture 3: What Version of Unreal Engine to use (UE5.3)

Lecture 4: How to ask for help

Lecture 5: Backing Up Your Projects

Chapter 2: Unreal Engine 5 Crash Course

Lecture 1: About the Unreal Engine 5 Crash Course

Lecture 2: How to Install Unreal Engine 5

Lecture 3: How to create a new Project

Lecture 4: How to navigate the Editor

Lecture 5: Content Drawer and Blueprints

Lecture 6: How to make a simple Blueprint

Lecture 7: Adding functionality to our Blueprint

Lecture 8: Useful Keyboard Shortcuts and Tips

Lecture 9: How to debug your games

Chapter 3: Paper 2D Basics

Lecture 1: What are Paper 2D and PaperZD?

Chapter 4: Basics and Character Movement

Lecture 1: Action Platformer Overview

Lecture 2: Asset Download

Lecture 3: Project Creation and Settings

Lecture 4: Preparing all of our Sprites

Lecture 5: Inheritance and making the Character Blueprint

Lecture 6: Possessing the Player and Camera Setup

Lecture 7: Setting Up Inputs and Movement

Lecture 8: Setting Up Animations with PaperZD

Lecture 9: Improving Character Movement

Lecture 10: Making the Iconic Mega Man Jump

Chapter 5: Making the Player Projectile

Lecture 1: Creating Projectiles

Lecture 2: Creating Flipbook VFX

Lecture 3: Enabling the Player to Shoot

Lecture 4: Limiting the Amount of Shots

Chapter 6: Health and Damage System

Lecture 1: Creating the Enemy Base

Lecture 2: Health and Damage System

Lecture 3: Damage Flash Material

Lecture 4: Damaging the Player

Lecture 5: Player Knockback and Stun

Chapter 7: Advanced Player Abilities

Lecture 1: Making the Charged Shot

Lecture 2: Organizing Variables

Lecture 3: Charge Material Flashing

Lecture 4: Cube Grid and Greyboxing

Lecture 5: Wall Slide System

Lecture 6: Wall Slide Animation and Wall Jump

Lecture 7: Building the RootMotion Plugin on Mac and Linux

Lecture 8: Implementing the Ground Slide

Lecture 9: Improving the Slide

Chapter 8: Checkpoints and Respawn

Lecture 1: Respawning the Player

Lecture 2: Checkpoint System

Lecture 3: Fall Detection

Chapter 9: Enemies and AI

Lecture 1: Making the First Enemy AI

Lecture 2: Shooting Enemy AI

Lecture 3: Projectile Knockback

Lecture 4: Making a Flying Enemy

Lecture 5: Making the Chaser Enemy

Chapter 10: User Interface

Lecture 1: UI Introduction

Lecture 2: Designing the Health UI

Lecture 3: Making the Health UI Functional

Chapter 11: Adding Sound Effects

Lecture 1: How to Play Sound Effects

Lecture 2: Adding the Remaining One-Off Sounds

Lecture 3: Animation Dependent Sounds

Lecture 4: Looping Sounds

Chapter 12: Level Creation

Lecture 1: Making 2D/3D Hybrid Levels

Lecture 2: Preparing our Tile Sets

Lecture 3: How to Make a Tile Map

Lecture 4: Fixing Exposure and 2D Settings

Lecture 5: Using the Orthographic Camera

Lecture 6: Orthographic Camera Changes with UE 5.4

Lecture 7: Making a Dynamic 2D Camera System

Lecture 8: Planning out our Level

Lecture 9: Blocking out the Level

Lecture 10: Decorating the Level

Lecture 11: Implementing the Win Condition

Lecture 12: Placing the last Fall Detector

Lecture 13: Framerate Settings for Packaged Build

Lecture 14: Finished Project FIles

Chapter 13: Extra: Ladder Climbing

Lecture 1: Ladder Climbing System

Lecture 2: Releasing the Climbing State

Chapter 14: Bonus: What's next?

Lecture 1: Bonus Lecture