This tutorial covers the fundamentals for effective interactions with platforms and other game entities for a 2D sidescroller game in Unity. You'll learn how to create a moving platform and interactive items for the player.
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For this tutorial you need some sort of movement for the player.
The final state of the Platform Generation & Layout - 2D Game and Platformer 2D Player Object tutorials is used as a base.
Alternatively, download the project in its final state combining the tutorial above here:
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This tutorial breaks down to these topics:
A moving platform is a ground area that moves between specific points.
To make a moving platform, we first need a platform object.
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Enabling grid and snapping might ease your work on matching distances between scene assets.
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Let’s begin with a new 2D Square sprite. Name it as you’d like.
Notice that, if you have enabled the grid, your new square fits perfectly in a grid slot:
This platform will be the size of 2 or 3 tiles. As each tile is 1x1 units, our platform needs scaling in the X axis (red arrow).
Scaling the X axis from 1 to 3
