Unity Beat ’Em Up Game Tutorial – Getting Started
Get started building your first beat ’em up game in Unity with this excerpt from our classic Beat ’Em Up Game Starter Kit, updated for Unity 2018.1! By Jonathan Simbahan.
Where to Go From Here?
Congratulations, you now have a functional title screen at your disposal! Not bad, especially since you’re probably new to Unity.
At this point, you know how to:
- Set up a new Unity project
- Navigate the Unity editor
- Create a simple scene using Unity’s UI
- And finally, load a new scene
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What could possibly be a more amusing way to burn time than slaughtering a horde of bad guys with trusty right and left hooks? Creating your very own beat ‘em up game, of course!
Beat ‘em up games have been around since the inception of 8-bit games and experienced their glory days when early console gaming and arcade gaming were all the rage — long before the world turned to pixels in the early part of the 21st century.
In the Unity version of this popular book, we’ll walk you through building a complete beat ’em up game on Unity.
With Unity’s great suite of 2D tools, it’s easy to build a game once and make it available to multiple platforms. The dark days of building for one platform, then painstakingly building your ingenious game on another engine for a different platform are over!
More than a book, this starter kit equips you with the tools, assets, fresh starter projects for each chapter, and step-by-step instructions to create an addictive beat ‘em up game for Android and iOS.
Each chapter builds on the last. You build out features one at a time, allowing you to learn at a steady, logical, and fun pace. Components were designed with reusability in mind so you can easily customize the resulting game.
This starter kit is for beginner to intermediate developers who have at least poked around Unity, perhaps even built a game, but need guidance around how to create a beat ‘em up game.
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