Tutorial: How to Make a 2d Platformer in Unity - Overview

This is the first in a series of tutorials showing You how to create a 2d platformer in Unity using the Unity physics system.  Before I show you the code I want to point you to the assists I will be using and I want to provide an overview of the series.  Below you will find links to the other posts and links to the assets I will be using.

Overview:

1.  Getting Started.

2.  Creating Animations.

3.  Tilemap Basics.
4.  Platformer Basics: Running and Jumping.
5.  Tilemap Colliders: Creating Slopes and using Physics Materials to Navigate Slopes.

6.  Parallax Background.

7.  Climbing Ladders and Double Jump.

8.  Grabbing and Climbing Ledges.

9.  Enemy AI.

Getting started:

First make sure you have Unity installed.  You can grab it here.  I will be using Unity 2019.2 but any version after 5 should work.

We also need to download the assets I will be using.  Download Adventurer-1.5.zip, pixel2dcastle1.1.zip, and Grassy_Mountains_Parallax_Background-vnitti.zip.

Create a new project and move the files into the asset folder and let's get started programming!
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