Retro Beat Em Up! - Season 1 - Updates Weekly

Put on your masks, we're going retro!
Did you ever wanted to know the ins and outs of beat em up classics like Double Dragon / Streets of Rage / TMNT in Time / Final Fight and a lot more?

Well now you can just by following my brand new course. Not only we are going to recreate a TMNT game from GBA and add a few modern touches to it, like fancy lights and shadows, we are going to see all the techniques involved like palette swapping / multplie players and if you like the course enough - online multiplayer as well.

Thumbnail art by CLRCRS

All rights and credits on the art go to the original artists, if you are a lawyer, TMNT is stupid and this is a parody, now go away and read this

The sprites i'm using are from here , all credits for the rips to the rippers.

BTW Rise of the TMNT is a good show!

Course Lessons

Course Resources

Course contains 45 lessons.

1. Setup

Let's setup our project, see how to handle our sprites and talk about our workflow

2. Movement

Let's start moving around with the navmesh

3. Photoshop Cleanup

Let's see the workflow to clean up "raw" spritesheets into organized frames we can then use inside Unity

4. Bigger Canvas Size

An addition from the previous video, let's see how to fix sprites with larger canvas sizes

5. Animations in Unity

Let's import our frames and have them animate

6. Attacks & Anims

Let's make our animations play and attack, all with input

7. Damage

Let's make our units react on attacks

8. Actions

Let's start thinking with actions

9. AI Shape Up #1

Let's put the intelligence in the AI

10. AI Shape Up #2

11. AI Shape Up #3

12. Combos + Jump

Let's add combos to our player and then jump!

13. Input Combos & More

Let's add combos based on inputs and a lot more gameplay goodies

14. Verticality

Let's get things vertically so we can work with our 2D tools

15. Vertical AI

16. Palette Swap!

Let's add some variety on our sprites, the easy way!

17. Phases

Let's create our level phases

18. 2D Lights

Let's fancy up our game with 2d lights!

19. AI Debug States & More

Let's make tools to make it easier to debug our AI

20. AI Delegates #1

Let's make our AI work with delegates over linear structure

21. Pathfinder #2

Let's create a simple A* for our enemies

22. Pathfinder #3

Let's expand on our pathfinder and create a flowmap to circle around our player

23. AI State Machine

Let's make a state machine for our AI

24. AI Mirror Player

Let's write some more AI logic to tailor our gameplay

25. Camera Dolly

Let's create a dolly that our move will move on to

26. Motor Thug #1

Let's add a motor boss

27. AI Sub Logic & Poly Nav 2D

Let's make our AI a lot more flexible than before

28. Projectile AI

Let's make an AI that stays back throws stuff, what a naughty fella...

29. Camera Logic

Let's setup everything we are going to need in terms of camera usage

30. How to rip sprites from GBA

Let's get ripping!

31. New Inputs & Player 2

Let's add the new input system and see how easy it is to add a 2nd player to it

32. AI Director

Let's create an AI director to surround our players like a mob

33. VFX

Let's create an object pooler and add VFX to the game!

34. Fixes & Shadows

Let's fix our input multiple registering, add shadows and some general fixes here and there

35. Spicy Boss

Let's make our first boss be a little spicy, let's have our motor thug be an actual mob with some tricky attack patterns

36. Spicy Boss #2

Resuming after the crash

37. AI Tweaks & Throwing Rocks

Let's make the AI throw some rocks and us throwing them back to them xD

38. AI Cases #1

Let's spice up our game with different AI logics

39. Dogs & AI Cases #2

Let's put some dogs in our game

40. Grabs #1

Let's add some grabs to our game!

41. Grabs #2

42. Post Process Effects 2D URP

Let's fancy up our camera

43. A Star Project

Let's introduce the A star project to our game and harness it's power! Get it from here https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/ai/a-pathfinding-project-pro-87744

44. Pathfinder Hook

Let's connect our units to the a star grid

45. Knocback

Let's play bowling with the enemies