Unity, the 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: official ...

A complete tutorial explaining how to create a very basic 2D platform game for Android with touch-screen controls in Unity.

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In part two of this tutorial we look at adding hazards, multiple platforms, ground detection and much more to create a basic but fun platformer.