Advanced Unity 2D: Platformer Player Movement

Course details

Learn the foundation of player movement in 2d platformer games. This course offers a breakdown of common player behaviors as well as some advanced techniques to bring your 2D platformer to life. Jesse Freeman shows how to detect input from the keyboard and controller, make the player walk and run, and add in more advanced movement behaviors, such as ducks, double and long jumps, and sliding down walls. Plus, learn how to make your character pick up items and fire projectiles like fireballs.

Learning objectives
Building an input manager for keyboard and controllers
Setting up the player
Building reusable, self contained, and modular behaviors scripts
Adding behaviors: walking, running, and jumping
Managing animation states and player collisions
Adding a ducking animation
Detecting wall collisions
Sticking to, sliding down, and jumping off walls
Picking up items
Firing projectiles

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - Using the exercise files

1. Working with Input

03 - Input introduction
04 - Building an input manager
05 - Abstracting axis input
06 - Building an input state class
07 - Tracking button release states
08 - Reading from the input state class
09 - Building multiple input managers for multi-player games

2. Walking and Running

10 - Setting up the first character
11 - Building a test level
12 - Building the abstract player behavior
13 - Changing the direction the player is facing
14 - Saving direction state
15 - Adding walking to the player
16 - Making the player run

3. Player Animations

17 - Managing player animation states
18 - Connecting player animation states

4. Managing Player Collisions

19 - Working with script execution order
20 - Building a collision state manager
21 - Debugging player collision state

5. Jumping

22 - Making the player jump
23 - Limiting jump
24 - Adding the jump animation
25 - Adding double jump
26 - Building a double jump effect
27 - Adding long jump

6. Ducking

28 - Adding ducking to the player
29 - Adding the ducking animation
30 - Disable other player behaviors when ducking

7. Wall Collision

31 - Building walls for the test level
32 - Detecting player wall collisions
33 - Adding wall collision animation

8. Sliding Down Walls

34 - Sticking to walls
35 - Sliding down walls
36 - Speeding up wall slide
37 - Adding a wall slide effect

9. Jumping Off Walls

38 - Making the player jump off walls
39 - Cleaning up the wall jump
40 - Testing out wall-to-wall jumping

10. Items

41 - Picking up items
42 - Equipping items
43 - Changing animation based on item
44 - Adding additional item animation states

11. Firing Projectiles

45 - Creating a fireball
46 - Destroying the fireball
47 - Shooting the fireball projectile
48 - Cleaning up the fireball projectile

Conclusion

49 - Next steps