Advanced Unity 2D: Platformer Player Movement

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

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