In this course, you’ll build a 2D game in Unity — starting from a completely blank project with no assets provided, you’ll create the entire game from start to finish. In the game, you fly a simple triangle-shaped ship using mouse clicks (or screen taps on mobile). Your goal: stay alive for as long as you can by dodging flying obstacles while your score increases over time. Along the way, you’ll learn the fundamentals of working in 2D, from navigating the Scene view to coding simple gameplay interactions. You’ll also explore key Unity systems like a user interface (UI), particle effects, audio, and publishing. By the end, you’ll not only have a complete, playable game, but you’ll also have the skills to start building your own original 2D projects.

Use the resources in this tutorial to help complete your game project using the Unity Playground framework. Each step drills down into one of the scripts, actions, attributes, or conditions that are used in the project.

During development of any project in Unity, there will be a need to import assets, whether they be 3D or 2D. Assets come in various file formats such as .fbx, .png, and .tga. These are just a few, but are commonly used in Unity development. In this tutorial, you will learn different ways to bring in your assets.

In development at Unity is a 2D Animation package that allows you to rig Sprites as one might rig a 3D model for animation. In this tutorial, you will go through the process of importing the 2D Animation package and rig a sprite ready to be animated. You will learn about all the features of the 2D Animation package, including Bones, Weights and Sprite Skins.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to set up animation clips in Unity after they have been imported from an external application, such as Maya, 3ds Max, or Blender, via an FBX file.

Once you’ve rigged your Sprite with Unity’s Skinning Editor, the process of animating it is identical to animating any other animateable property in Unity.

SpriteShape lends an organic, hand-crafted feel to projects by allowing you to tile Sprites along a path, rather than the typical grid pattern.

In addition to square and rectangular tile shapes, Unity can also create hexagonal and isometric tile maps. In this tutorial, you'll experiment with hexagonal and isometric shapes, and learn how to configure their size, swizzle, and position.

Unity’s Tilemap system makes it easy to create and iterate level design cycles within Unity. It allows artists and designers to rapidly prototype when building 2D game worlds. In this tutorial, you'll create a Tilemap and explore the Tilemap system including Tilemap settings, and you'll use the Tile Palette to edit your Tilemap.

Making a spinner in Unity is a great entry-level project to get students to think about programming and development. This series was created with students in middle/high school in mind, but it could be used for younger and older students with modification on how the content is presented. Learn more about teaching ideas in this video and by downloading the curriculum guide here.