Unity for 2d games development

Unity is one of the most popular game engines at the moment. Its popularity is due to its simplicity, its easy access and the fact that it is a really powerful tool. It is the most popular engine among indie developers because there is a huge amount of documentation avalaible on the internet and it has a great community. Amateur developers can easily get started and get code working very fast so they can focus on other aspects of the game like the artistic part of the game, but don't get confused, complex games with complex mechanics will take advanced programming skills.

The topic we are talking about in this post is Unity 2d features. Unity started as a 3d exclusive game engine but some developers started using it for the development of 2d games. Unity Technologies realised of this and started including 2d oriented features. Nowadays Unity is one of the most powerful engines in both 3d and 2d game development.

Today we are talking about some of the features that make Unity such an interesting option for 2d game development:

• 2d mode, Unity gives the possibility to block the editor view in a 2d perspective so it is easy to work in the development of 2d games.

• 2d physics, Unity has a whole 2d physics system getting rid of the z variable and including features like colliders or gravity.

• Sprites, Unity allows to import images as sprites. You can import sprite sheets and divide the different sprites using the editor. This sprites can also be refactored and compressed inside the editor.

• 2d animation, animating using different sprites in unity is as easy as dragging and dropping all the sprites at the same time.

• Sorting layers, allows the developer to determine wich sprites will be show in the front and wich ones will be shown in the back.

• Tutorials, there is a large number of tutorials focused on 2d game development.

The combination of all these features alongside with the power of the engine make it a great tool for the development of 2d games. If you are thinking of start working in this kind of games or you just feel corious about the engine don't doubt it and give it a try.

Interesting links:
Unity web page: unity3d.com
Unity 2d tutorials: unity3d.com/es/learn/tutorials/s/2d-game-creation

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