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Complete Endless Runner Game Course in Unity 2D
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Complete Endless Runner Game Course in Unity 2D

Learn to create your very own Endless Runner Game with powerups, particle systems, and ground movement.
Last updated 6/2024
English

What you'll learn

  • Create multiple obstacles for player to avoid.
  • Add powerups to give the player double jumps and invincibility.
  • Allow multiple types of ground platforms for player to run on.
  • Design animations, motions, and piratical systems effects to give the game life.

Course content

5 sections16 lectures1h 55m total length
  • Meet the teacher0:26

    Meet instructor William, an experienced game creator who teaches others how to make games, apps, and websites; explore more content at Red Fool Studio and start the course today.

  • Create project2:12

    Create a new 2D Unity project for the endless runner, establish art, prefabs, scenes, and scripts folders, and set the game to 16:9 aspect ratio.

  • Imports2:02

    Download and extract the asset zip, import art, configure square and triangle sprites, set sprite mode, pixels per unit, filter mode, and compression, then place and scale them in scene.

  • Source code0:10

Requirements

  • No experience needed but familiarity with Unity and C# coding would help.

Description

By the end of this course you will know how to create your very own Endless Runner Game in Unity. We will be starting from complete scratch building the scene for our game then all the way through until we have complete bird movement with respawning pipes and a store functionality.


A Endless Runner Game is classic style game where you avoid objects until defeat. It offers the player an addictive fun challenge that can be replayed over and over again. By adding powerups the player will be able to enhance their play style and add more abilities to help avoid in coming obstacles to the player. The particle systems will enhance how the player interacts with the game world.


If you are new to coding do not worry all scripts will be walked through for each game object and source code will be available for download.


With the steps below we will create our Endless Runner Game:

- Menu background

- Menu UI

- Game scene

- Game scene UI

- Player object

- Player movement

- Platform design

- Platform spawner

- Spike obstacles

- Particle systems

- Powerups

- Game over screen

After completing each step above you will have your very own Endless Runner Game template and the knowledge to craft it into your own design for future game ideas.

Who this course is for:

  • Any level game developers.