2D Top Down Movement UNITY Tutorial

In this Unity Tutorial we'll cover how to move a 2D character or player around the scene from a top down perspective. This tutorial won't cover animations, but it does cover how to move correctly using Unity's built-in physics system and input system.
This tutorial is a great starting point for beginners to get their feet wet with game development. It also can act as a refresh for Intermediate+ developers.
Hope it helps!
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[@Lipapalidev]

BRO I love you instead of just showing the code you also explain it even though it's 3 years old this is one of the few tutorials I respect

[@theduckyt9357]

Simple, straight to the point and only 7 minutes long. Love it.

[@user-qq2jh4ep6u]

That's what she said.

[@GeckoTech_Engineer]

I have a whole lot of concept art for a 2d top down game and these tutorials really helped, there is a lot of stuff I’m still trying to figure out like how I’m going to animate my sprites and a lot more, but I saved some of your tutorials to a playlist I will watch them all on repeat until I can understand it well

[@AsanpiCh]

Short, simple, and it works! As an artist trying to learn code, thank you!

[@toiletdroid5914]

Nice video. Amazing how you can get full movement for top down in a 7 minute video. A lot of other tutorials drag on for like half an hour to achieve the same outcome. This is one of my 5* tutorials, which I keep in a folder for future reference.

[@koshiinahole1003]

People who gives their knowledge for free, r a other kind of hero. U r kinda saving lives if I think deep about it. Gj!

[@thecanaeggplant2937]

i literally love you. Thx for this, pls keep making short videos like this. For example make a one tutorial about how to make 2d map work properly, making game interface etc.

[@martindotts8262]

I love how straight to the point this is. :)

[@CASMANWHAT]

LOVE how you explains stuff. so clear!

[@iamcheezeYT]

best tutorial! telling my friends to come here if they want to learn game dev

[@plutoniumbellamy1912]

This is perfect for underwater movement. Thank you for this tutorial!

[@PolyxTheWise]

You, good sir, are a freaking LIFE SAVER. I was looking everywhere for a simple tutorial on this, and by God, you made it stupidly easy. Thanks to you I overcame a simple, yet seemingly insurmountable obstacle. THANK YOU! :)

[@fishgethirsty6377]

Awesome tutorial love it, it's straight to the point "this is how you move" lol, thanks for this tutorial 👌

[@toastedtoastyboi]

im learning game design for a class project and this was helpful. thank you!

[@blaze4074]

FINNALY a video that will work! i've lost my hair trying to find a top down movement tutorial

[@thatrealguylogan]

Wow thank you so much, i found it hard to follow on in other peoples videos but you did a really good job at explaining the code and how it is used, so thanks a lot!!!

[@philippthuring686]

great value in this, plus your voice is really nice. gonna go check out your other videos now!

[@user-qq1xq2zp9v]

Everything that I needed was here all the time...thanks for sharing your skills.

[@nikhilshelke9398]

Thank you so much for this tutorial. I am currently working on a procedurally generated dungeon game, and this helped me get started. Great video!

[@BMoDev]

Appreciate it! Would love to keep tabs on your game

[@kuyabonbondevlog1044]

Thank you, your tutorial is the only one working on all of the videos I searched

[@jjadter8139]

Thank you so much for explaining why you did the things you did! It really helped me learn!

[@xteclisx27]

Short and concise! Thank you!

[@happydoggo1235]

Really nice video, explained everything really well and very clear. I'm still a beginner for unity and my first real project is making the Atari game from the film Ready Player One and this video was an absolute godsend.

[@DanOfMostTrades]

I appreciate your speed and conciseness! Other tutorials are finishing up their promotions and introduction at 7:20

[@sofisticated1940]

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[@DarioMarken]

@@sofisticated1940 Don't disrespect the legend himself.

[@IFCreativeAlt]

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[@roberthermoso3436]

Nice video man, clear and concise explanation! Thanks a lot!

[@dhruvsrivastava9846]

Omg this is so much simpler and a better explanation than 3 other videos

[@joemullen7789]

Thanks so much for this tutorial! I'm getting back into game dev after a long break and this tutorial was super helpful to me!!!

[@BMoDev]

Love to hear it, keep going! Feel free to share your progress in the discord would love to see what you make!

[@Zephyr314]

same here!

[@wickjon1844]

0:58 Small tip: if you make simple 2d top down game and don't need gravity or physics that much, you should change rigidbody2d -> body type from Dynamic (default) to Kinematic instead. So you don't have to worry about forgot set this thing up or something made up. Good luck on your journey!

[@koolkiller35]

I'm sorry I'm new to coding and don't understand. Can you explain that in a bit more detail?

[@wickjon1844]

​@@koolkiller35 You can refer here in 1:28 and 2:09 kzbin.info/www/bejne/rqGWaHuwZtlkh5o Also you have to know that in unity when you build something in your scene event you build in 2D world basicly it's still happen in 3D that why you can switch it's properly and you can check in RigidBody2D -> Constraints -> Freeze rotation Z which is height value of 2D object in 3D world to prevent it's had strange behavior when interacting and have behavior of 3D world like floating around.

[@leaf4645]

​@@koolkiller35in the rigid body where u adjust the gravity, there is an potion called "bodytype" change that from dynamic to kinematic

[@TheWeatherMan2]

Good shout honestly

[@NamNguyen-uu8yq]

TNice tutorials is THE most helpful tutorial on KZbin imo. I am starting production in Hardstyle, and I find soft soft really useful

[@stipularbench1534]

OMFG the best tutorial easy to follow and I learned soooo much KEEP GOING

[@BMoDev]

No doubt, glad it helped!

[@toster5071]

Can someone give me finished script? I want to compare it

[@TiggyTVAnimations]

Thank you man! I am making a game and this really helped thank you so much!

[@keventy6114]

Thanks! I did this and linked it with the Animator StateMachine- with the Horizontal and Vertical inputs - to make very smooth-looking movements.

[@BMoDev]

Ayy nice work! You're ahead of the game, that was going to be a followup video :)

[@keventy6114]

@@BMoDev That's great to hear! Looking forward to watching the next.

[@Kualdir]

Great video! Short and very clear

[@des757]

Do you have your VS Code editor formatting method blocks in K&R style as you type or are those subtle jump cuts? I'm going crazy trying to get VSCode C# to stop doing Java style curly braces. Even the Unity snippet extension I'm using formats it that way, but the auto formatter fixes it when I hit the hotkey. I just want the lightweight-ness of Code with the feeling of Studio typing ahhh

[@jacobhuneault3420]

Had to rewatch on .75 and .5 speed and pause, but this is not a video about copying your code, simple explanations, right to the point, even just enough of extra info about some codeline, keep it up and thank you for your help

[@sahildesai4221]

Loved the way you explain things! subbed ;)

[@BMoDev]

Thanks!

[@zombieskull5710]

Thank you, it helped me, and was pretty simple.

[@jazzyjaiden]

More than a year old but this still holds up! Only nitpick is I wish you'd linger on your code for a second or two after you've finished typing rather than just zipping back over to Unity, gives me a chance to pause so I can fully read what you've done.

[@TheDoomLordd]

These videos help so much, my mind just gets stuck somedays and its hard to make even a simple start

[@bhartisharma139]

FYI you can just put * speed in the process input float and put rb.velocity = moveDirection in void move and it will work just as fine as rb.velocity = new Vector2 (movedirection.x, movedirection.y)

[@viksingg6661]

Ty bro, short tutorial, not some complicated code, this is great Im leaving like and subscribe!

[@logosrule]

Went way too fast at times and even cut away like 1 frame before you finished typing a line of code but I was able to make it work.

[@Eee___59]

I can't type I need help

[@trickshotsquirrel]

​@@Eee___59why are you coding then

[@GarySSBM]

Omg, glad you’re ok!

[@werejustgaming]

Yeah my problem but I can't make it work

[@Sock_Croc]

love it. it really helped

[@toby_1405]

Thank you so much very good tut!!

[@mattheww1072]

Great tutorial. If anyone's Vector2 is an issue, delete "using System.Numerics;" if it's in your Visual studio code. That fixed it for me

[@BMoDev]

Thanks for sharing!

[@everything-we9rc]

surprisingly hard to find videos about top down movement and this tutorial was very helpful

[@BMoDev]

I've always thought that too, np

[@ozgungor2339]

This helped me a lot thank you

[@hernandonj]

Very good video. Thanks!

[@margarinebutter]

very helpful, thanks man

[@sdenys3554]

Thanks for the tutorial, you are very help me, Thank you again))

[@simi8220]

Thank you so much for the quick and easy explanations.

[@BMoDev]

Thanks!

[@jaygo3721]

whenever i open VSCode on unity and try puttting something like GameObject nothing comes up, and its not the intelli thing cos other tthings come up like try and stuff does anyone know why

[@mzerom9515]

Sos un capo, master, idolo, crack, genio, lo explicaste bastante bien

[@inflameMC]

Thanks, keep it up!

[@Sam4Progress]

I was stuck using AddForce from a different tutorial, and I couldn't for the life of me figure out, or find the syntax for other movement types. Not only that, even had I found Velocity, the way it is implemented is different than the AddForce was... so I would've been lost regardless! Now, we have a very straightforward, and easy to understand multidirectional movement!

[@unexpectedcringe4575]

getting watched latered for the rest of my days thank you

[@siryaakov2491]

Great video thank you :D

[@Indie-A-tom]

Thanks for the turorial. The best one I found.

[@BMoDev]

Appreciate ya 🙏

[@azaankaleem09]

Most useful vid ever thank u

[@fania676]

It's the best unity tutorial video I ever seen

[@d.w.6584]

Simple Easy to follow along To the point with out any unnecessary assets or utility files to import. As someone who's just gotten into the gamedev, Thank you! I've been trying to learn basic concepts and techniques and I keep hitting walls because a lot of "beginner" tutorials will skip explaining/showing 1 or 2 really basic code that is essential to making a script work, or have assets preloaded and then never reference them in the tutorial. I've had to stop (after much frustration and time invested) a number of them and then look for how to do X, just to move forward. So a big thank you for keeping it short and sweet w/out any other unnecessary dependencies.

[@cardario5323]

It scares me how good theses tutorials are!

[@BMoDev]

Wow appreciate it

[@minayouness]

Thank you so much for this tutorial

[@BMoDev]

You bet hope it helped!

[@cedricantunes4600]

Thanks, very cool :D

[@cynthiawilliams5553]

thank youu for the help!

[@wizwizard7382]

hey, having trouble for some reason on ln22 col5 (fixed update) and cant figure out why. any ideas?

[@owenbrewster521]

I love the quick pace of this tutorial! Super easy to follow. Do animation plz :))))

[@BMoDev]

Awesome! Animation is definitely one of the upcoming videos

[@owenbrewster521]

@@BMoDev Looking forward to it :D

[@ADITYA3GAME]

Hey! Can you make a video on how to code a diagonal jump? I tried this but the vector in x direction doesn't seem to work 😥

[@OblviousSnailYT]

Hi! Can i ask what theme you're using for that syntax highlighting?

[@iconic2310]

thanks for showing finally able to get my little rpg going!

[@johndenis8526]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH GOD BLESS YOU. THE ONLY TUTORIAL I COULD FOLLOW AND IT WORK.

[@Nolan_975]

hey! ty for your tutorial but t have an error in the console: Assets\PlayerMouvement.cs(35,74): error CS1061: 'float' does not contain a definition for 'y' and no accessible extension method 'y' accepting a first argument of type 'float' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) can you help me?

[@theblaze89miller]

thank you!

[@user-hp2ct5yu9e]

THX helped a lot

[@Montigorable]

Super helpful, amazing, fabulous.

[@BMoDev]

Thank you 🙏

[@togashi-azul]

Thanks for the video, even though it was made long ago it is still useful! :)

[@BMoDev]

Thanks! Unity hasnt changed that much so most older videos still apply just fine!

[@laughingpanda95]

anyone who got stuck on the scripting bit. like me. i was missing the extensions in visual studio code. you just need the c# one but you'll also need .net framework 7 and the 4.7.1 devpack ( forgot full name) once i got those i had all the needed links after that it was a breeze. also at end my character wouldn't move and i had all the spelling and so on correct in the code the issue was super simple. i had to capitalise the H and V in horizontal and vertical. drove me mad but wanted to share because this video works but my road was bumpy cause those factors. liked and subbed mate spot on thank you

[@misspeachyxo]

this is so helpful thank you do much!

[@BMoDev]

Awesome!

[@geekhatter5722]

When I type in 'void FixedUpdate' it doesn't create all this other stuff, it also doesn't show me all the other options for commands you have, the ones with that orange image you also have next to 'PlayerMovement' up top, which I also don't have. My file path ends at '> PlayerMovement.cs', am I missing some file?

[@santaman9319]

Thank guy, have a good day

[@inkadastinka7600]

when i type public float moveSpeed; and public Rigidbody2D rb; it does not show anything under the tab and I have not found anything on the forum that can help me.

[@alfredfind1219]

This is a very simple and good tutorial! I had trouble finding a tutorial that was easy to follow so thank you very much :)

[@BMoDev]

Awesome, happy to hear that!

[@potantirittisak8494]

THANK YOU!

[@gettinjcob4206]

this is the most helpful vid in movement thanks

[@BMoDev]

Glad it helped!

[@chris.davidoff]

What do you do objects that want to apply a force to your player though?

[@hezroncalucag8080]

Thank you so much for this

[@BMoDev]

Sure thing!

[@KokiriChild1]

Loved this tutorial, it was very easy and quick. Thank you!

[@zreakz]

I have been trying to learn basic top down movement like this for the past couple days. I have no C# experience, but this is the only video where the code actually worked and I learned what it meant. Will definitely watch more videos, thanks!

[@BMoDev]

Nice job!

[@kjudu4159]

I think it's still one of the best tutorials about diagonal movement and you helped me out a lot thanks about that. WELL DONE!

[@mrlaughgas]

Is there a reason you received the inputs and put them into the moveDirection vector only to separate the components again with: rb.velocity = new Vector2(moveDirection.x * movespeed, moveDirection.y * movespeed); Could you just do: rb.velocity = new Vector2(moveX * movespeed, moveY * movespeed);

[@mohamedmomax4652]

Thank u bro

[@bottleogames]

ive watched this a few times now its saying "Assets\Scripts\PlayerMovement2d.cs(26,23): error CS0103: The name 'GetAxis' does not exist in the current context" can you help?

[@zilvi_69]

Thanks!

[@sueray5771]

Thank you

[@zippich7495]

hi i am russian and i don’t even know if i am writing correctly because through a translator. i didn’t think i would switch to english courses but i switched thanks to you

[@ICapCorn]

Кстати я тоже русский

[@henrykrieger3381]

I need help! In the script is the command: public Rigitbody rb; flawed or with other words rigitbody wont me displayed.What am I doing wrong! PS: Sorry for my englisch I come aus germany

[@NeoniumOxide]

thank you so much

[@ZohMyGods]

is there are reason to create a new Vector2 every time? isnt it better to create a velocity and initialize it on the Start function and just update rb.velocity to velocity ?

[@noahmosterd]

thank!