Hollow Knight: Silksong by Team Cherry, Made with Unity
Everybody loves 2D
From RPGs to match 3s, some of today’s most successful games are 2D, including 75% of the top-grossing mobile games.
Unity has enhanced 2D tools to help you create gorgeous 2D experiences. The workflows are more efficient so every member of your team – from artists and designers to animators and engineers – can achieve even more.
Everything works together
Beyond graphics, Unity now has all the essential features you need for 2D animation, world-building, and 2D physics, for projects of any scale on any platform. At the same time, the 2D Renderer gives you performant graphics and more creative possibilities with tools like Shader Graph and native 2D Lights and Shadows.
Lost Crypt is a sample project that showcases all of these 2D tools in action together. We built it with Unity 2019.3 beta, and it runs on desktop and mobile.
The next level of 2D development
All of the 2D tools are designed to work together seamlessly.
2D Animation
Rig Sprites and set up bones to create smooth, skeletal animation. Use it with the PSD Importer to directly access your layered artwork.
2D Lights
Enhance 2D visuals with different types of lights that feature easy-to-configure parameters like colors, intensity, fall-off, and blending effects.
2D for ShaderGraph
Easily author shaders by building them visually – you create and connect nodes in a network graph instead of having to code.
Tilemaps
Create large grid-based worlds, including Hexagonal and Isometric Tilemaps, that are optimized for size and performance.
Sprite Shape
Create rich free-form and organic 2D environments with a visual and intuitive workflow that saves sprite resources.
Sprite tools
Set up and optimize the art assets for your 2D projects. You can even handle some popular raster and vector formats directly in Unity.
More features
2D Pixel Perfect
The Pixel Perfect Camera component ensures that your pixel art is always crisp, clear, and stable. It makes all the calculations to scale the viewport with resolution changes, and it can adjust your rotating sprites for a consistent pixelated look.
PSD Importer
The PSD Importer is a big timesaver, letting you import layered Photoshop files directly into Unity. The tool is particularly convenient when you are creating characters that consist of several limbs and parts to use with 2D Animation.
2D for mobile games
Mobile games in genres like puzzle, arcade or casino games are generally made in 2D. Discover how Unity leads mobile development and how 2D can boost your mobile productions to create, operate and monetize your games.
Vector graphics
This package provides an SVG importer that interprets SVG documents and generates 2D Sprites for use in Unity. You can easily set up the tessellation details, and there’s an API so you can work with vector data directly in the code.
Pixel-perfect retro games
Among its other applications, 2D Pixel Perfect is perfect for recreating the styles of classic games of console generations past. Get nostalgic, and learn how to set up your project to create old-timey art.