Get Started with the Creator Kit: RPG

Create a World to Explore

Enhance the World

Populate your World

Create a Quest

Develop the Player Experience

Quest Accepted!

Creator Kit: RPG

You’ve created a world for the player to explore, but it’s a little plain. Now that you’ve created the basics, you can make it more interesting and challenging to explore.

In this tutorial, you’ll:

Add fences to your house and the wider world

Add footpaths to guide the player through the world

Add land features which act as obstacles to the player

Add animated objects and decorations to make the world more visually interesting

Add fences to your world

Add Footpaths

Add a Land Feature

Add Animated Plants

Add AnimatedClouds

Add Static Decorations

Increase the Variety of your Decorations

Now that you’ve created a world for your players to explore, you can begin to populate it with other characters (NPCs) for them to interact with.

Create an interaction between the NPC and player character

Add an NPC to your game

Animate your NPC

Design an NPC Interaction

Add the NPC Dialogue

Add the Player’s Dialogue Choices

Now you’ve created a simple quest for your player, but there are other ways to enrich the world that they will explore to create a more immersive RPG experience.

Add Story Items which share information with players as they explore

Create dependencies between Story Items, which can be used to construct a narrative

Add a Story Item

Create Linked Story Items

You’ve used this Creator Kit to create a world, populate it with NPCs and set quests for players to complete. In this final tutorial you'll create a build of your game.

Share your game

What next?

This Creator Kit offers students full project assets to create an RPG (Role Playing Game) of their own design. This kit is a great way to explore character development within game design. No coding is required in this project, but if your students have coding skills, they may program the game play and behaviors as they like. This is project fits well into the mid or end point of a game development pathway. 

Using the Unity Interface, to learn basic Unity interface navigation and get comfortable

Playground for Educators, to learn Unity interface in an easy-to-manage project

Create with Code, for computer programming and Unity development experience

Welcome to the RPG Creator Kit! If you fancy yourself an intrepid adventurer and love completing NPC quests to fill up your inventory, this is the kit for you.

This Creator Kit is code-free, which means that you can focus on learning about Unity Editor and customizing the game based on your own ideas and interests.  When you’ve completed the learning project, you’ll be able to share your customized RPG with friends. We also have lots more 2D game content for you to explore!

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You can use fences to give your house a garden, or to make the player’s movement through the world a little more challenging.

1.  In the Hierarchy, go to World > Tilemaps > Fences. Fences have their own container GameObject. 


2.  In the Tile Palette window, check that the Active Tilemap field is now set to Fences — it should do this automatically. (If you need to change it manually, use the drop-down menu.)


3. In the Tile Palette window, select the Fence Tile.


4.  In the Scene view, paint in fence tiles to enclose a garden for your house. The fence will try and “snap” to pieces of fence already added to the Tilemap. You can also click and drag in the Scene view, to quickly create longer stretches of fencing.


TIP: Take care not to box the player character in! If they’re trapped by fences, they won’t be able to freely move around the world. If you need to delete a section of fence, use the Eraser Tool. 


You can also add footpaths to the world. They are only aesthetic (they have no Colliders attached), but can be a very useful way to suggest different paths for players to explore.


1.  In the Hierarchy, go to World > Tilemaps > Midground.  


2.  In the Tile Palette window, set the Active Tilemap field to Midground. 


3. In the Tile Palette window, select the green Footpath Tile.

5.  In the Scene view, paint in Footpath Tiles. You can click to add individual tiles, or click and drag to create wider pathways in the direction that you move your mouse. 


TIP: You can also click and drag in the Scene view with the Eraser Tool selected, to remove larger sections of path. 


Next, let’s add a natural land feature. The Tilemap Palette includes a small rock cliff that the player cannot pass.

1.   In the Hierarchy, go to World > Tilemaps > Midground. Set the Active Tilemap field to Midground.


2.  In the Tilemap Palette window, select the Rock Cliff tiles.

3.  Select the Paintbrush Tool and paint the tiles into the Scene view.


4.  In the Hierarchy, select the Background GameObject. Set the Active Tilemap field to Background.


5.  Paint in the background behind your cliffs, to fill in the transparent space and make any design changes that work better with your adjusted landscape.


7.  Enter Play Mode to test your changes — the player character will now need to go around any cliffs that you have added. Remember to leave Play Mode when you're done!

This Creator Kit includes a special right-click menu to add the key elements of the game. This menu isn’t normally included in Unity Editor — we‘ve added this so you can focus on worldbuilding and designing gameplay. It works by adding an instance of a Prefab (a reusable GameObject template), which you can adjust for your game.

The first thing you'll add with this menu is an animated tree:

1.   In the Scene view, right-click the location where you want to add the tree. 


2.  In the context menu that appears, select Environment > Add Animated Tree1 Here. Your new tree will appear in that location.

It will be automatically added to the Animated Tree1 Collection container GameObject:


3.  If you need to adjust the tree’s position, select the Move Tool in the toolbar. Click the yellow square in the center of your tree and drag it to your chosen location.


4. Enter Play Mode to test your changes — the tree you have added will already be animated, because it is stored in the correct container.

You can use this process to add three different types of trees and animated leaves. Experiment to see what works best for your world! 


TIP: Remember, to delete a tree GameObject you have added (or any other GameObject), select the GameObject in the Hierarchy. Then you can either:

Right-click the GameObject and select Delete from the context menu.

Select the GameObject and press Del (Windows) or Cmd + Backspace (macOS).

Clouds can also give a sense of place to your world, and enhance the tranquil atmosphere of this Creator Kit. 

1.  In the Project window, go to Assets/Creator Kit - RPG/Art/Sprites/Environment.


2.  Select one of the three available cloud designs:


3.  In the Hierarchy, open the World GameObject and find its child AnimatedClouds.


4. Drag your chosen Cloud Sprite from the Project window to the AnimatedClouds GameObject. 


5.  With the Cloud GameObject selected, place your cursor over Scene view and press F. This will focus the Scene view on the cloud. 


6.  In the Inspector, find the Cloud GameObject’s Sprite Renderer component. Set the Order in Layer parameter to 2000.


This will ensure that clouds are on top of everything else in your Scene, including the roof of the house.


7.  In the Toolbar, select the Move Tool icon. In the Scene view, click and drag the cloud until it is in the correct location.


8.  You can also resize the cloud, if you want to. In the toolbar, select the Rect Transform Tool. With your cursor, click and drag a corner of the box around your cloud to resize it.

Now you’ve added animated objects to your world, but there are more decorations which can add some visual variety. 

Let’s start with a non-animated plant:


1. In the Hierarchy, select the Objects GameObject that you created before adding the roof for your house.


2.  In the Scene view, right-click the location where you want to add the plant. 


3.  In the context menu that appears, select Decorations > Add Bush0 Here. The new decoration will appear in that location.


It will be automatically added as a child of the Objects container GameObject.


4.  If you need to adjust its position, select the Move Tool in the toolbar. Click the blue square in the center of the decoration and drag it to your chosen location.


5. Save your changes, then test in Play Mode to see what they look like in the game. Remember to leave Play Mode when you’re done!

Although the menu only gives you the option to select different types of plant, you can duplicate these GameObjects and change their Sprites to increase the variety of decorations in your world. 

Try adding flowers, rocks or a cactus to vary the environment players have to explore!

To duplicate a decoration GameObject:


1.  In the Hierarchy, find the GameObject you want to duplicate. 


2.  Right-click the GameObject and select Duplicate. Alternatively, select the GameObject and use the shortcut Ctrl + D (Windows) or Cmd + D (macOS).


3.  In the Inspector, find the duplicate GameObject’s Sprite Renderer component.


4.  Click the circle select button to the right of the Sprite field. Select your chosen Sprite for the GameObject.


5.  If you want to, you can rename the decoration so that it is easier to identify. In the Hierarchy, right-click the GameObject and select Rename.

Enhance the World

1. Add fences to your world

2. Add Footpaths

3. Add a Land Feature

4. Add Animated Plants

5. Add AnimatedClouds

6. Add Static Decorations

7. Increase the Variety of your Decorations

Complete this tutorial