The Best 2D Games made with Unreal Engine

[@CobraCode]

Get my 12 hour course on how to make 2D games with Unreal Engine: tinyurl.com/Ultimate2D All Games and Resources mentioned in the video: tinyurl.com/Unreal2DGames

[@jej_x]

what is the difference between your 2 udemy courses?

[@CobraCode]

@@jej_x Hey, the Ultimate 2D course covers fundamentals and gives you a strong base understanding by showing you how to make 4 different types of games. The focus is on learning Paper 2D and PaperZD. The action platformer course only concentrates on a single game. Here we won't cover the fundamentals in as much detail and move along pretty fast, but this allows us to go deeper on more advanced gameplay implementation. The focus is more on using PaperZD and making a real game with it.

[@ZimMabu_GameDev.]

Bro i can only say RESPECT! I buy all of your courses and you are right now the best teacher that i have for that stuff (i have some other courses and a couch also) Very good work!!! I learn very good with ya courses so keep it going and to all other people BUY BUY BUY if you like to learn 2d!!!!!!!!!

[@CobraCode]

Thank you so much :D@@ZimMabu_GameDev.

[@aecl4287]

These videos always give me a massive boost of inspiration. I love it when you said, "You don't necessarily have to go by the book for creating games" because a lot of people (myself included) keep stressing over "Is this the right method?", "Is this wrong?" when it really doesn't have to be that stressful or complicated and in the end doesnt matter that much. Keep on creating and showing people what's possible!

[@CobraCode]

Awesome :D Yeah I used to be in the same boat always worrying about the perfect method of implementation. But the longer you make games the more you understand that nobody outside of yourself actually cares and the players aren't gonna notice. Of course keeping in line with best practices is great, but not if it paralyzes you and prevents you from actually making stuff!

[@yawarapuyurak3271]

hey, I've studied software engineering on uni and work as a software engineer(junior). From talking with older, more experienced devs, they tend to say that making games is both hard and easy. Unlike other types of software, you have complete freedom on how to make it. The hard part is making it all come together.

[@compatriot852]

It's incredible what unreal is capable of. I really like how particle effects and 2d characters in a 3d space are handled. Games like octopath traveler really do show how stunning the environments can get. I've seen some examples like recreating pokemon towns in the octo artstyle, but no tutorials so far showing how they pulled it off

[@nnarcus]

Super inspiring video! And this video got me thinking that it would be super cool to have you share / deep dive into unique tools / design choices and other insights you come across when researching the indie dev space 😊

[@egsk2018]

Very glad to hear about the success of your 2D course, you deserve it! Keep it up the great work. Maybe consider running a game jam amongst your students - might be a fun idea :)

[@CobraCode]

Thank you so much :D Yeah I definitely want to set up a Paper 2D Game Jam at some point. Currently I'm really busy with visa and tax stuff though and need to prioritize other things, since it will be quite a lot of work.

[@compatriot852]

4:33 Stuff like Spine and Sprite Studio definitely would be something I'd be interested in learning too.

[@noiJadisCailleach]

LMAO! Just checked the price for Sprite Studio. If you wanna purchase the non-trial version, it will set you back 615 USD. I repeat, that's $615!!! And that's for a 1 year, 1 YEAR SUBSCRIPTION only! There are no perpetual licenses available. Needless to say... Pretty FRIGGIN RIDICULOUS!!! No freakin way an indie dev would bite on that just to learn it. Not even a decently sized studio! Toooootal scam, if you ask me.

[@nyashchan-]

thank you for continuing your work

[@CobraCode]

Thank you for continuing to watch :D

[@zackaccount]

Another inspiring, insightful video from Cobra. As an amateur dev who recently switched to Unreal I've been enjoying the journey and seeing what's possible with this fascinating engine. I recommend Cobra's courses on 2D in Unreal Engine; effective, concise lessons from an enthusiastic teacher. Keep these videos coming!

[@CobraCode]

Thank you :D

[@dolphano2951]

A great list of games once again, thank you for sharing!! I'm so glad to see Ender Lilies here, and find it fascinating that they used Spine to animate their characters since that's new information to me (and I'm struggling with the software currently)! The extra background information is greatly appreciated :D

[@CobraCode]

Thank you :D It was a lot of fun putting this together!

[@bcrane86]

this looks great! bought the course, hope to learn something and start as a complete beginner :D

[@CobraCode]

Thank you so much :D

[@dbbuchmann]

What's the option on steam to show estimated revenue? It would be amazing to see that on store pages, but this video is the only place I've ever seen this. Example timestamp 4:55

[@CobraCode]

It's a chrome extension called Steam Revenue Calculator

[@VinoVenitasRealOne]

This inspired me. Working on my next 2d game ... So this was nice inspiration.

[@beachbento]

The Artful Escape is fantastic!!!

[@TapMyButtons]

Very Inspiring!

[@aknostv]

Triangle Strategy is also done in Unreal Engine, from the same developers of Octopath Traveler. Beautiful game!

[@Fusionfalls10]

I knew at the beginning the "poster child" it would be ender lillies even blurred and that UI peak further confirmed it. I will say the main surprising thing about it is the small file size given the quality of the sprites.

[@CobraCode]

Yeah I was expecting it to be 5GB+, but was really surprised when I saw it was less than 2GB

[@laconsuela69]

Recently started getting into game dev with Unreal but then started to get 'which-engine-should-I-choose' paralysis, because I don't want to have to learn a new engine if I decide I want to make 2D games. The amount of stuff to learn in each engine is daunting! Ultimately I don't want to feel like my investment in an engine doesn't limit me from doing what I want--even getting a job in the industry. Your videos make me realize that I can stop worrying about what engine to use and keep going with Unreal

[@CobraCode]

Glad to hear the video helped you make a decision :) Yeah if your only goal is to make 2D games and that's all you care about Unreal might not be the best choice, but if you want to be a generalist and maybe also want to get a job in the industry you can't go wrong with Unreal.

[@MrA6060]

for the people at home "hd2d" is not the trademarked style, it's just the trademarked name for that style. one can 100% make a game in that style, they just can't use the term "HD2D"

[@wrldonwill]

Game 3 has a slight Vanillaware vibe to the art direction and character movement. Looks good!

[@gamerboi_27]

Ok I'm definitely sold on Unreal Engine now. I've spent a couple years in Gamemaker, but I am going to take my projects into Unreal Engine. Change is scary and daunting, but it's become clear that Unreal can offer tools that other engines cannot handle as well. But I'm very much looking forward to taking your course and sharing my contributions to the world. Luckily I haven't gone too deep with my current project. All I would really need to do is import my sprites and continue where I left off. Thanks so very much for providing your teachings so solo devs can turn their dreams into reality. :)

[@CobraCode]

Awesome :D I hope your project will go well!

[@Shodan-0101]

Loved this!

[@MarekGamer76]

Have you seen any examples of using stylized 3d character models in a 2d environment? Seems like this might be an easier way to do more intricate animations, weapon/armor swapping, etc.

[@CobraCode]

AFAIK dead cells is technically doing something like that. They're using 3D models, but just making them appear like pixel art.

[@Algost_]

nice vidéo, how do you have the est revenue on the Steam page ? Thx

[@CobraCode]

It's a chrome plugin called Steam Revenue Calculator!

[@newtforgegames]

Awesome video as usual and loved going through your course! How is it your seeing the steam estimated revenue in the steam UI?

[@CobraCode]

Than you so much :D It's a chrome plugin called Steam Revenue Calculator. It estimates the revenue based on wishlists, reviews and so on.

[@3ehlll]

Thanky ou for this and all other incredible videos man, found your channel a week ago and am hooked to the turotials, Thankyou So much. I was just wondering how are you able to see the net revenue of games on steam - is there a setting for it or third party plugin?

[@CobraCode]

Thank you :) It's a chrome plugin called Steam Revenue Calculator and it's just an estimate based on amount of reviews, etc.

[@SuAimz]

Is there any update on a possible parallax tutorial? -ps I bought your course and it’s really good and clear

[@CobraCode]

Hey, that's still on my TODO list, but not really high priority right now. Sorry :(

[@Justin-tp7us]

Are you going to be at GDC? I'd love to meet and chat with you.

[@CobraCode]

Hey! I actually live in Japan, so not gonna be at GDC or any events outside of this country.

[@luigiistratescu2756]

Hey, I'm thinking of transitioning to UE5 to make a 2D game. I wanted to ask you, using BPs instead of coding, isn't it harder? Less flexible? Also, should I worry about performance? I don't know anything about UE. Thank you!

[@CobraCode]

Hey! It really depends on your preference, but generally I'd say BP is 10 times easier than doing C++ in UE. No need to import headers, no need to crawl through documentation, no need to wait for compilation, no editor crashes since BP virtual machine prevents crashes, easily reparent and rename.... and the list goes on. Now there are people who claim they're faster in C++, but I am very skeptical. I used C++ for 2 years before starting UE and it was still an absolute pain to get into it, since it's very macro heavy and different. Unless you make a game of a very specific genre, like maybe a real time strategy game performance won't really be that much of an issue. If you do extremely heavy things then yeah only moving that part into C++ will be beneficial. There are very few things you can ONLY do in C++ which you will use frequently.

[@noisegl_dx6633]

Great video! I picked up both of Udemy courses recently, it's hard to find time to finish at least one of them for now but I will get there :D

[@CobraCode]

Thank you so much :D

[@TheKrensada]

4:30 but spine is far cheaper.

[@Lilo13YT]

3:52 is Dubrovnik, Croatia

[@skipie03]

is that a steam addon that shows est net rev and rating?

[@CobraCode]

Hey, it's called Steam Revenue Calculator

[@ItsRagingRay]

thinking about moving a Game maker stduio 2 game to unreal engine just because i desire to make it an online co-op game and Game maker is so much tougher than just using RPC on Unreal

[@superlbc]

Right, but the steam oled scteen can run at 90hz, therefor wir can be set at 90fps, if I am not mistaken

[@CobraCode]

Ohhh that's awesome, didn't even know the OLED version has 90hz. Still all of these games also clear the bar and run at 90 as well.

[@bluzenkk]

the optPix sprite studio they use in @4:33 is very expensive... and require yearly subscription....

[@jeyizumi]

been trying to make a 2d game i saw in my dreams awhile ago and unreal is a better choice for me to make what i saw. currently i'm still designing characters and things i want to add on paper, but something has been bugging me, i thought paper 2d and paper ZD are almost the same thing but it doesn't really seem so anymore. what's the difference between them?or are they tha same? do i need both making my game or just choosing one is enough?

[@CobraCode]

Hey, hope things will work out with your game! Paper 2D is the built in base system to enable sprites, flipbooks tile maps and so on, but it's lacking quality of life features such as an animation graph and animation notifies. PaperZD is built ON TOP OF paper 2D and just adds these nice features while still depending on the base classes of Paper 2D. You can make a game with Paper 2D only, but PaperZD will give you a better workflow.

[@jeyizumi]

@@CobraCode thank you so much for answering! now i have a clearer vision on how to actually make a 2d game with unreal.

[@phildrakep2953]

hello do you have a tutorial for creating a 2d rope with a character that can hang on and swing on it. THANKS

[@CobraCode]

Hey, sorry but I don't have a tutorial specifically about that.

[@OTProd]

Love the content! Could you perhaps show how to set up basic enemy AI in a top down 2D game? I have been stuck for weeks and can’t find anything online that helps. Cheers!

[@CobraCode]

Thank you! AI is something I haven't covered at all yet, but something I want to get into. However I'll first start with side scrolling since that's easier to understand and what more people are looking for.

[@miraliseyyedisahebari177]

Bro can you upload a video with combination of c++ and paperZD ?

[@CobraCode]

I will at some point, but it's not that high priority on my TODO list right now. Sorry!

[@miraliseyyedisahebari177]

@@CobraCode ❤️❤️❤️

[@robertadams3925]

How do you see estimated revenue on steam?

[@CobraCode]

It's a chrome extension called 'Steam Revenue Calculator'

[@evaander]

how do you show the est. revenue on steam? even on with the steamdb extension I can't find an option to turn it on

[@CobraCode]

Hey, it's not the SteamDB extension, but the steam revenue calculator extension

[@darknetworld]

There a lot different but depend on the user choice to game engine. Everyone is free to build their game. I guess Unity(bad choices) hurting the dev people and it not open src. But those dev have work hard from those work on plugins and assets to handle those 2D stuff well. People are creative to improve 2D which I didn't know there another 2D add on.

[@Yuran-berecuane]

Bro, in your next Udemy course can you teach how to create the dash system and the dialog system?

[@CobraCode]

Hey, thanks for the suggestion. But I need to plan things out to make sense as a whole and can't just throw random systems like that in there. I do have a JRPG course planned which will have a dialogue system though, but that's still pretty far in the future. The beat em up course will probably have a dash system and that one is the most likely to be completed this/next year.

[@takyonyazılım]

👏👍

[@judeduval5724]

Good video.

[@jacksparrowramirez3312]

early access helps you evade taxes!

[@gunterstunter]

This is great! At some point could you make a tutorial of how to have a transition between a 3d and 2d within scenes? Plucky squire is a great example! If you did a tutorial on how to recreate this in unreal it would be amazing and I’d would be keen to follow them all 😊 kzbin.info/www/bejne/ianZYWpooNiig7cfeature=shared

[@CobraCode]

Thanks! I know about plucky squire and yeah that is an interesting topic. It also reminds me of Mario Odyssey and how they handled switching there. It might be too specific of a topic to cover and I don't see it doing well on KZbin, but it's something I definitely am interested in personally.

[@kayag8]

I would choose unreal over unity, except unreal 5 is over a 100 gigs. Thats so stupid

[@CobraCode]

UE 5.4 which is the latest version is 37 GB. Considering that many AAA games nowadays are around the same, it shouldn't be a real issue. You can turn off the linux, android and ios compiler when installing it, otherwise ... yeah it's gonna increase the size by roughly 40GB.

[@buster5661]

Bro just put the titles instead of this "game" bs

[@CobraCode]

If people just hover over the bar to only see the game titles instead of watching the video, I might as well just make a blog post... and by the way there's a full write up with more info on all games listed in the description.

[@buster5661]

@@CobraCode ...the why put "game #"??? Don't tell me you're that desperate for watch time

[@CobraCode]

​@@buster5661 You know I could have not set any chapters at all😁

[@buster5661]

@@CobraCode so you admit you are desperate for watch time. Losing a great deal of respect for you

[@CobraCode]

@@buster5661 I guess I shouldn't have answered in the first place, but as an educator I would like to educate people that are ill informed. I could go into a whole long thing explaining how youtube works and how much time it actually takes to make a video like this and that you would want to optimize your watch time and retention rate, but I think nothing will get through to you. Good day to you.

[@turoreal]

Question, why do you take the (no offence) lazy way of just using blueprints instead of adding c++ tutorials with unreal engine? the community is seriously lacking good c++ tutorials in the unreal engine context and you are worsening the problem by continuing that trend.

[@CobraCode]

Sorry, but I don't think C++ in UE is the end all be all you make it out to be. But it can be useful for optimization and accessing functions that aren't exposed to blueprints. There will be some C++ coverage in the future, but it's never gonna be my main focus. Reubs has great C++ tutorials and Rocky Mullet makes UE 2D games with C++, so their videos might be down your alley.