Metroidvania Toolkit- Make a 2D Action Platformer in Unity

Metroidvania Toolkit: Make a 2D Action Platformer in Unity, available at $79.99, has an average rating of 4.6, with 102 lectures, based on 238 reviews, and has 1741 subscribers.

You will learn about ****DISCOUNT AVAILABLE ON MY WEBSITE**** Computer Coding and Code Architecture Unity Game Development C# Code Theories Complete Movement Controls for 2D Platformer Object Pooling and Shooting Mechanics Data Persistency within Unity Enemy AI World Map 2D Character Rigging Inverse Kinematics 2D Animations and Keyframes Random Drops when Enemies Die Video Game Development Theories Save/Load System with Multiple Game Slots This course is ideal for individuals who are Aspiring game developers or Game developers looking to make a platformer or Programmers looking to learn about game development or Hobbyists who want to sharpen their game development and programming skills It is particularly useful for Aspiring game developers or Game developers looking to make a platformer or Programmers looking to learn about game development or Hobbyists who want to sharpen their game development and programming skills.

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Summary

Title: Metroidvania Toolkit: Make a 2D Action Platformer in Unity

Price: $79.99

Average Rating: 4.6

Number of Lectures: 102

Number of Published Lectures: 102

Number of Curriculum Items: 102

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 102

Original Price: $19.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

****DISCOUNT AVAILABLE ON MY WEBSITE****

Computer Coding and Code Architecture

Unity Game Development

C# Code Theories

Complete Movement Controls for 2D Platformer

Object Pooling and Shooting Mechanics

Data Persistency within Unity

Enemy AI

World Map

2D Character Rigging

Inverse Kinematics

2D Animations and Keyframes

Random Drops when Enemies Die

Video Game Development Theories

Save/Load System with Multiple Game Slots

Who Should Attend

Aspiring game developers

Game developers looking to make a platformer

Programmers looking to learn about game development

Hobbyists who want to sharpen their game development and programming skills

Target Audiences

Aspiring game developers

Game developers looking to make a platformer

Programmers looking to learn about game development

Hobbyists who want to sharpen their game development and programming skills

Hi! I’m Brent, I also go by I_Am_Err00r, and thanks so much for taking a look at my first course, “Metroidvania Toolkit”;  I run a solo game development company Error Free Games, am currently in development making a Metroidvania style action platformer, and wanted to share some of the knowledge I have acquired in making this popular style of genre with the rest of the game dev community.

This course is for anyone who is interested in learning the ins and outs of how to create a 2D action platformer from scratch and we will be creating everything from the ground up; throughout the entire series I will take the time to explain and provide insight on how I go about coming up with solutions and we will be building up the solution from nothing which will make understanding complicated theories with code architecture and maintenance easier to comprehend for those who are new.

In this course, I will provide solutions for the following popular features:

1. Horizontal Movement

2. Jumping and Double/Multi-Jumping

3. Wall Sliding/Wall Jumping

4. Crouching

5. Dash/Dodge Roll

6. Grappling Hook

7. Object Pooling/Weapon Projectile System

8. Weapon Inventory

9. Scene/Room Management

10. Camera Movement

11. Mini Map/World Map

12. Save/Load System

13. Character Ability Acquisition

14. Enemy AI

15. Random Drops

16. Player/Enemy Health

17. Data Persistency within Unity

If you’re new to coding, game design, or Unity, then the initial section I provide will get you up to speed and quickly teach you the most basic ideas behind coding as well as how to work within Unity; by the end of the initial section you will have a good understanding of what the different windows in the Unity editor do, as well as an understanding of the most basic data types that are foundational for all coding languages; before we wrap up the initial section, I will show you how to ‘build’ a game and play it as an application on your computer outside of Unity.

If you have some experience coding but struggle writing your own solutions, the rest of the series focuses specifically on how to build an entire Metroidvania style action platformer with over 80 episodes teaching you how to organically come up with solutions using the tools available with Unity out of the box; I will teach code architecture and how to maintain multiple different classes depending on what scripts are communicating with each other, and because we will build this from the ground up, this approach to teaching gives you a behind the curtains look on how these games are built and the why behind more complicated theories rather than just the how.

If you are an experienced programmer, this course will save you a ton of valuable time; depending on your experience level and rate of pay per hour, this course probably costs less than half an hour of your going rate, and will definitely get you in the right direction faster on some of the more complicated solutions.

Regardless of your skill level, this course will give you a head start on creating your very own Metroidvania style game!

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

Instructors

Brent Williams
Programmer/Game Designer

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5 stars: 171 votes

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