2D Roguelike 1 of 14 : Project Introduction

Welcome to the scavengers project video series.

Before we get started with the tutorials,

let's take a look at the game that we're going to create.

So what we've got here is a

small turn-based tile-based

rogue-like style game

in which we have a player that can move through the level

one space at a time, each time he moves he loses

one of his food points, which he can regenerate

by collecting food pickups on the board.

The player has to avoid enemies who can

attack him and subtract from his food score.

And attempt to survive for as many levels

or days as possible.

We've set this up so that it can be deployed

to mobile platforms, including some touch-based controls

which we'll add in the last video in the series.

In order to follow along with this project

you'll need to create a new project,

set the default to 2D,

and hit Create Project.

I'm going to cancel for now since I already have it open.

Once you've created your new empty project

you're going to open the asset store window,

navigate to the scavengers project from the publisher

Unity Technologies.

And download and import that project

in to the new empty project.

You'll see a dialogue saying that

this will import the project settings,

which will include the layers and tags

that we need.

Choose Yes and import the project.

Once you do that you'll notice that a number of

folders have been created,

including a Completed folder which will contain

completed examples of all the things

that we're going to create during the series.

You'll also notice that

we've added some tags,

to the tag manager, including Food,

Exit, Enemy and Soda.

We've also added a layer called Blocking Layer.

In the sprite renderer you'll see that

we've added a number of sorting layers

including Floor,

Items and Units.

These have all been predefined and will be

imported when you import the project.

Over the course of the project we're going to

go through creating the needed tiles,

animations, adding our sound effects,

adding our user interface,

as well as the scripts necessary

to make all of this possible.

In the final video we're going to add our

touch screen controls to make our game

playable on mobile.

This project was created using Unity 5,

but we've attempted to make it backwards compatible

with Unity 4.6.

If you're following along in 4.6

you will notice that there are some differences

in the user interface, but hopefully you'll be able to

follow along using the basic principles.

This series assumes a certain level of

knowledge of the Unity Editor and of

C# scripting and therefore is aimed

at an intermediate level.

Hopefully as you follow along you'll be inspired

with some ideas for your own projects,

and learn some new concepts.

Let's get started.