Farm Zombies | Making of 2D Platformer Game in Unity

In this post, I will be documenting the development process of the game Farm Zombies - a 2D platformer in Unity (the link to the source project is available at the end of the post).

Devlog

Week 1

Before I decided on the name of the game, I started by creating the main character in Photoshop. I decided to go with a pixel art character:

The character ended up resembling a farmer, so I decided to go with the name Farm Zombies.

To justify having the 'Zombies' in the name I went ahead and created the enemies, which are in fact, zombies:

To speed up the development process I used this 2D Player Controller.

Now with the Player and Enemies being ready, I moved to create a first level, which I decided to make Farm themed. So I got to work making all the sprites necessary for the level:

Some of the elements are tile-based such as the ground and the trees, with the rest of the details being fixed-size sprites:

The level ended up containing 4 types of obstacles: spikes, zombies, swinging axes, and ground holes:

The green flag signalizes the end of the level:

And lastly, I created the on-screen labels using UI Canvas to show when the player dies and also an indication of what button to press to restart the level:

Week 2

In the second week, I started by creating a new Level. I decided to go with a medieval-themed level.

I went ahead and created 3 new tile sprites and one detail sprite (torch and flames):

The level is situated inside a castle with torches on the wall and the same obstacles as the first level (spikes, zombies, swinging axes, and ground holes).