Learn how to design levels! Explore working with tilemaps, procedural generation, large world maps, and more via free level design tutorials.
You can access the full course here: Create and Manage Huge Worlds Part 1 Creating our Terrain For this project, we’re going to be needing a terrain to test out the chunk system with. The program L3DT is what we’re going to use. This is a free program which can generate terrains with various different properties and … Read more
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 project. This project will be called Super Jumpy Plumbers and use the 2D Template. We will be using version 2019.2.0a4 for this project. Once the … Read more
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 build a base defending game where we protect our bases from falling enemies using rockets. In this lesson, we’re going to lay out our level. … Read more
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, delete the default SampleScene. Then create 2 new scenes: Menu and Game. While we’re at it, let’s also add these to our Build Settings screen (File > Build Settings). … Read more
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 this is that you can manually select what will be in each room of the dungeon. The second option is to procedurally generate the dungeon … Read more
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 to download the sprites from the “assets” folder of our source material. Project setup Create an empty Unity 2D project and add the sprites you … Read more
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 you with a step-by-step guide to developing Virtual Reality games for the GearVR platform. Beginning with the basics of VR game creation in Unity, you … Read more
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 dynamically deactivate distant tiles according to the player position. Now, we are going to add the following things in our game: Adding trees to the … Read more
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 of our level. By now, we already have a fairly complete procedurally generated level, but we can still add some other things, and that’s what … Read more
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 assign terrain types and heights for each Tile region. This tutorial series takes inspiration from, and expands on techniques presented by Sebastian Lague, Holistic3D and … Read more
