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Unity 5.x 2D Game Development Blueprints

You're reading from   Unity 5.x 2D Game Development Blueprints Explore the features of Unity 5 for 2D game development by building three amazing game projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784393106
Length 252 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Francesco Sapio Francesco Sapio
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Abdelrahman Elsayegh Abdelrahman Elsayegh
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Tiled for 2D level design


In this chapter, we are going to finish the game that we started in the previous chapters. To begin, let's start by designing an even cooler level!

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Before we start creating our level, it's good practice to design our level on paper, even if it's some sketches of different ideas.

We will be using a third-party tool named Tiled for this purpose. Tiled is a free 2D map editor that will save you a lot of time working on your levels. It is a tool that makes it much easier to create a 2D level, instead of doing it within Unity by duplicating game objects. Here is the download link for it: http://www.mapeditor.org/download.html.

Lastly, in order to use what you will create in Tiled, you also need to download another program called Tiled2Unity. It is a utility that allows us to import levels that have been created in Tiled, as prefabs into Unity. Here is the link to download Tiled2Unity: http://www.seanba.com/tiled2unity.

After installing both programs, we can start by opening...

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