I need help making a 2D game

[marble ermine]

i have been trying find tutorials for how to make a 2d game but I can’t find any good ones that aren’t outdated.

[violet canyon]

What experiences do you have

No programming experience? Try out gdevelop and look for a tutorial there just to learn how game development works, then go to a real engine like unity or Godot

Programming experience but want to do less code and more gamedev? Unity and Godot

Programming experience and like to program and learn more? Either use a framework with the language you are comfortable with or if you like to suffer try out a low level graphics library

You can create a 2D game in many wags

I made a small game (figechaser) with F# and Raylib

[plain talon]

Best advice everyone will give you: learn to code.
Unity uses C#, it's better to first learn how to code in C# and then move on to make some games.
It's like learning the basics about notes and chords before starting to play an instrument, you must find a course that teaches you the fundamentals of programming before you start searching for unity tutorials.

The basic knowledge you need to start making games in unity is:

• Variables and types
• Conditions
• Arrays and lists
• Loops
• Functions
• Classes, structs and objets
• Inheritance of classes
  From there you can start making some games and keep learning more complex stuff or dive deeper on the basics, some cool stuff experienced devs use:
• Delegates, actions and events
• Generics (a type of class or function)
• Interfaces
• Abstract classes
• Ternary operators
• Properties (get and set)
• Some other cool stuff
  In basic tutorials you will see only the ones from the first list, but more advanced tutorials use stuff from the second list, so once you have mastered the basics you will be motivated to keep learning cool stuff.

Of course it's not easy, but it's cool, just like playing an instrument. Just don't fall in tutorial hell before learning how to code please :)

If you want to make games in any other engine you need the same basic knowledge, just in another language. As an example, for godot you could learn python, the advanced stuff often changes but it's usually similar. Engines which don't require code are usually very limited, and it looks way cooler when you have a bunch of fancy words and symbols on the screen.

[marble ermine]

Thanks this will help me a lot 🙂