An Introduction to 2D Platformer Basics
You can access the full course here: Unity 2D Projects – Super Plumbers Part 1 Project Setup We will start this lesson off by opening Unity and creating a new … Read more
Explore Free Level Design Tutorials
Learn how to design levels! Explore working with tilemaps, procedural generation, large world maps, and more via free level design tutorials.
Creating a Retro Base Defender Game
You can access the full course here: Unity 2D Projects – Rocket Defender Part 1 Welcome to Zenva’s Retro Series – Rocket Defender course.  Throughout this course, we’re going to … Read more
Create a Unity MMORPG Map with Tiled
You can access the full course here: RPG – Multiplayer Projects Part 1 Setting up the Project Before we begin, let’s first set up our folders and scenes. In the Scenes folder, … Read more
Understanding Procedural Dungeon Generation in Unity
There are two ways of building dungeons in your game. The first one is to manually create the dungeon rooms and connect them through the dungeon. The advantage of doing … Read more
Set up a 2D Procedural Game
You can access the full course here: Procedural 2D Dungeons Tilemap Setup In this lesson, we are going to start building our demo by creating a tilemap. First, we have … Read more
Free eBook – VR Game Development with Unity for Human Beings
We’re excited to announce the launch of our new eBook Mobile VR Game Development with Unity for Human Beings. Written by software developer and technical writer Shang-Lin Chen, this resource provides … Read more
A Guide to Handling Huge Worlds in Unity – Part 2
In the last tutorial we created a huge world using the L3DT tool and imported it in Unity. We also have split the world into tiles, so that we can … Read more
Complete Guide to Procedural Level Generation in Unity – Part 3
In the last tutorial we added more noise variables to our level, such as temperature and moisture. In addition, we used those noise variables to assign biomes to different regions … Read more
Complete Guide to Procedural Level Generation in Unity – Part 2
In the last tutorial we created a Level object by creating its individual tiles. For each Tile, we generated pseudorandom height values using a noise function, so that we could … Read more
Intermediate Unity 2D Game Development: From Master To Pro
If you have already conquered Master Unity 2D Game Development by Building 6 Games then you are ready to take your unity skills to the next level and become a professional … Read more
Game Maker for Beginners
No more excuses! Now you can learn to build games with one of the easiest engines to use on the planet! Build games from scratch while learning to code. Â And … Read more
Unreal Engine for Beginners – Build 5 Games
Take the plunge into game development! In this beginners course, you will learn to write code in C++ for Unreal, while learning to make 5 simple games. Unreal Engine is … Read more
The Complete Construct 2 Course – Build 60 Games
Yes, you can learn to build games in Construct 2 without coding. Master game development by building 60 practical projects from the ground up including art. Don’t waste precious time … Read more
The Ultimate Unity 5 Game Development Course
Game development is an exciting, challenging, highly dynamic area to work in. You have keep your skills in top shape by knowing the latest tools and programs available. Unity 5 … Read more
How to Procedurally Generate a Dungeon in Phaser – Part 2
In the previous tutorial we procedurally generated a dungeon with multiple rooms, allowing our hero to navigate through it. In this tutorial, we are going to populate those rooms with obstacles, enemies … Read more
How to Procedurally Generate a Dungeon in Phaser – Part 1
Some games have a fixed number of levels created by a level designer. This way, the designer can create the levels so as to provide the desired gameplay experience to … Read more
How to Script a 2D Tile Map in Unity3D
Prologue: The Back Story A little while ago, a friend and mentor and I were talking about the tutorials I write for this site. I was talking about how I … Read more
Platformer Tutorial with Phaser and Tiled – Part 3
Until my last platformer tutorial, we created a simple platformer game with some nice content, however there are still some things to add before making it playable. In this tutorial, … Read more