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: ...

Unity has released an asset suite aimed at easing newcomers’ entry into game development. Aimed at teachers, students, kids or game development beginners, Unity Playground is offering a free, ...

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, ...