Make A 2D Action Platformer In Unreal Engine 5

Learn how to make a 2D Action Platformer similar to Mega Man with Paper 2D in Unreal Engine 5!

What you'll learn

How to make an Action Platformer similar to the Mega Man Series

Unreal Engine Blueprints, starting from the basics up to advanced usage

Character abilities such as Wall Jumping, Sliding and more

Different types of 2D projectiles and shooting

Create 4 different types of Enemies and their AI

How to create 2D levels with tile sets and tile maps

Best Practices for 2D and 2D/3D hybrid games in Unreal Engine

How to make a dynamic camera system

Requirements

No prior programming or Unreal Engine experience needed! You'll learn everything you need to know.

Description

Welcome to the Make a 2D Action Platformer in Unreal Engine 5 Course.This course will teach you everything you need to know about Unreal Engine and Blueprint Visual Scripting to become able to make your own games!Through teaching Unreal Engine on YouTube and also in person at a Japanese Game Dev school for the past couple of years I've gained an understanding of what students are really looking for and designed this course to teach you the process of making games with Unreal Engine.By making a 2D Action Platformer like Mega Man you'll first learn how to import 2D Sprite Sheets and how to use them to create a character that feels fun to control!We'll use the Enhanced Input System to bind actions such as moving, jumping and shooting to the keyboard and then update the character animations accordingly by using the PaperZD Animation Graph.After that we'll implement the projectiles and shooting system for the player and also create a health and damage system that will be shared between the player and enemies and is created in a modular fashion.We'll also add more and more abilities to the player such as a charge shot, Wall Jump and Ground Slide.Not only will you learn how to implement these abilities using best practices, but you'll also learn the way of thinking and problem solving that is necessary to create similar abilities for your own games!We'll also create 4 different enemy types that all have different AI behavior.We'll handle things such as turning around when walking into a wall or before falling off a ledge, detecting if the player is close and chasing them and much more.Lastly we'll look at how to build 2D stages using Tile Sets and Tile Maps and then put everything together we've learned so far to create a complete action platformer level!

Overview

Section 1: Course Orientation

Lecture 1 Curriculum Overview

Lecture 2 Why make 2D Games with Unreal Engine?

Lecture 3 What Version of Unreal Engine to use (UE5.3)

Lecture 4 How to ask for help

Lecture 5 Backing Up Your Projects

Section 2: Unreal Engine 5 Crash Course

Lecture 6 About the Unreal Engine 5 Crash Course

Lecture 7 How to Install Unreal Engine 5

Lecture 8 How to create a new Project

Lecture 9 How to navigate the Editor

Lecture 10 Content Drawer and Blueprints

Lecture 11 How to make a simple Blueprint

Lecture 12 Adding functionality to our Blueprint

Lecture 13 Useful Keyboard Shortcuts and Tips

Lecture 14 How to debug your games

Section 3: Paper 2D Basics

Lecture 15 What are Paper 2D and PaperZD?

Section 4: Basics and Character Movement

Lecture 16 Action Platformer Overview

Lecture 17 Project Creation and Settings

Lecture 18 Preparing all of our Sprites

Lecture 19 Inheritance and making the Character Blueprint

Lecture 20 Possessing the Player and Camera Setup

Lecture 21 Setting Up Inputs and Movement

Lecture 22 Setting Up Animations with PaperZD

Lecture 23 Improving Character Movement

Lecture 24 Making the Iconic Mega Man Jump

Lecture 25 Asset Download

Section 5: Making the Player Projectile

Lecture 26 Creating Projectiles

Lecture 27 Creating Flipbook VFX

Lecture 28 Enabling the Player to Shoot

Lecture 29 Limiting the Amount of Shots

Section 6: Health and Damage System

Lecture 30 Creating the Enemy Base

Lecture 31 Health and Damage System

Lecture 32 Damage Flash Material

Lecture 33 Damaging the Player

Lecture 34 Player Knockback and Stun

Section 7: Advanced Player Abilities

Lecture 35 Making the Charged Shot

Lecture 36 Organizing Variables

Lecture 37 Charge Material Flashing

Lecture 38 Cube Grid and Greyboxing

Lecture 39 Wall Slide System

Lecture 40 Wall Slide Animation and Wall Jump

Lecture 41 Implementing the Ground Slide

Lecture 42 Improving the Slide

Section 8: Checkpoints and Respawn

Lecture 43 Respawning the Player

Lecture 44 Checkpoint System

Lecture 45 Fall Detection

Section 9: Enemies and AI

Lecture 46 Making the First Enemy AI

Lecture 47 Shooting Enemy AI

Lecture 48 Projectile Knockback

Lecture 49 Making a Flying Enemy

Lecture 50 Making the Chaser Enemy

Section 10: User Interface

Lecture 51 UI Introduction

Lecture 52 Designing the Health UI

Lecture 53 Making the Health UI Functional

Section 11: Adding Sound Effects

Lecture 54 How to Play Sound Effects

Lecture 55 Adding the Remaining One-Off Sounds

Lecture 56 Animation Dependent Sounds

Lecture 57 Looping Sounds

Section 12: Level Creation

Lecture 58 Making 2D/3D Hybrid Levels

Lecture 59 Preparing our Tile Sets

Lecture 60 How to Make a Tile Map

Lecture 61 Fixing Exposure and 2D Settings

Lecture 62 Using the Orthographic Camera

Lecture 63 Making a Dynamic 2D Camera System

Lecture 64 Planning out our Level

Lecture 65 Blocking out the Level

Lecture 66 Decorating the Level

Lecture 67 Implementing the Win Condition

Section 13: Extra: Ladder Climbing

Lecture 68 Ladder Climbing System

Lecture 69 Releasing the Climbing State

Beginner and Intermediate Unreal Engine developers,Game Designers that want to make Action Platformers