In part one of how to create a simple 2D platformer for Android in Unity, we went over the basics of creating a 2D platformer in Unity for Android. In doing so, we created a very basic little ‘game’ ...

In the previous two posts in this series (part 1 and part 2), we’ve seen how to create a basic 2D platformer using Unity. So far we have a character who responds to keyboard input and touch controls, ...

Unity, the increasingly popular “build once, deploy anywhere” 3D game engine, is going 2D. At the company’s UNITE conference in Vancouver this morning, CEO David Helgason announced three things: ...

3D shook the video game market. When Super Mario 64 dropped and gamers could finally control the famed plumber in a fully 3D environment, things simply were not the same. The standard had been set and ...

Whether it’s 2D sidescrollers or 3D sandboxes, the platformer is a foundational video game genre. Run, don’t walk, to play the best games about jumping as skillfully as possible. My PCMag career began ...