Enhance your 2D visuals with configurable parameters like light colors, intensity, fall-off, and blending effect to create nuanced lighting in your game.
Easily author shaders by building them visually. Create and connect nodes in a network graph instead of coding by hand.
Set up and optimize art assets for your 2D projects. You can even handle some popular raster and vector formats directly in Unity.
Unity Pro contains the essential features you need for 2D animation, worldbuilding, and 2D physics. Try them for yourself in our interactive sample project, Dragon Crashers.
Cuphead is a single-player or co-op run-and-gun platformer. Inspired by 1930s cartoons, the visuals are hand-drawn and inked, and soundtracked by original jazz recordings.
Team Cherry decided to take full advantage of built-in development tools in Unity and the extensions available on the Asset Store to meet their technical goals and create stunning art in Hollow Knight.
Learn how Unity helped a team of 14 creators spread across the globe work together efficiently to combine strong story, beautiful art, and engaging gameplay, all in one great hack-and-slash 2D game.
Hearthstone took the award-winning and universally loved Warcraft franchise to mobile. The team moved from in-house tech to Unity in order to iterate faster, adapt to a shorter development timeframe, and achieve success with their first-ever mobile game.
Learn how to create a 2D platformer game using the assets from the 2D essentials pack, including Corgi Engine, DoozyUI, DOTWeen Pro, and 2DDDL Pro.
Looking to jump in? Get started with this lighting round of handy tips to help you work efficiently across your entire project.
With 2D Pixel Perfect, the 2D team at Unity makes it easy for creators like SouthPAW Games to produce sharp pixel art that scales and stays clear at all sizes, on a range of devices.
Mobile games in genres like puzzle, arcade, or casino games are generally made in 2D. Discover how Unity leads mobile development to help you boost your mobile productions.
Explore 2D worldbuilding in Unity as you learn about Tilemap and automating composition, as well as tracking to enhance gameplay with 2D Cinemachine.
This practical guide gives you information and resources that will get you started, save time, and help you gain the most value when developing 2D games using Unity.