The Best 2D Games made with Unreal Engine

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In this video I introduce even more 2D Games made with Unreal Engine that you might not know about.
Companies like Square Enix have pioneered the HD-2D style using Unreal Engine, however there are many more game studios using Unreal Engine for 2D and 2D/3D hybrid games.
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Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
0:41 Game 1
1:24 Game 2
2:07 Game 3
2:41 Make Unreal 2D Games yourself
3:07 Game 4
4:11 Game 5
4:44 Game 6
5:44 Game 7
6:32 Game 8
7:06 Game 9
7:23 Game 10
8:08 Game 11
9:01 Game 12
9:20 Game 13
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[@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.

[@brettwood8379]

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.

[@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

[@compatriot852]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@VinoVenitasRealOne]

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

[@aknostv]

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

[@nyashchan-]

thank you for continuing your work

[@CobraCode]

Thank you for continuing to watch :D

[@TapMyButtons]

Very Inspiring!

[@Shodan-0101]

Loved this!

[@wrldonwill]

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

[@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

[@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!

[@BeatEmUpsGuy]

awesome video, someday we will be here as well.

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@user-iy9gq4tj4k]

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 :(

[@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!

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@Lilo13YT]

3:52 is Dubrovnik, Croatia

[@judeduval5724]

Good video.

[@takyonstudio]

👏👍

[@skipie03]

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

[@CobraCode]

Hey, it's called Steam Revenue Calculator

[@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 ❤️❤️❤️

[@user-hp2gi9pv4o]

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.

[@jacksparrowramirez3312]

early access helps you evade taxes!

[@CardrisCreations-iq7zs]

Pricing for sprite studio is insane for indies unfortunately ;/ it seems to be amazing tho

[@CobraCode]

If you have more than 1 team members, then yeah. I think it's rather cheap for solo devs though, isn't it? The Starter license is free if your business made less than ~$70.000 in the last fiscal year and the Professional license seems affordable enough at around $500 per year.

[@CardrisCreations-iq7zs]

@@CobraCode I don't find that to be cheap at all, unless it is crazy better than the other options (I have no idea if it is...) but, Spine, Spriter, and even Animate CC are WAY cheaper than that, plus there is DragonBones which is free (it never gets updated which is VERY sad, but it is pretty good and again, free)

[@CobraCode]

@@CardrisCreations-iq7zs Thanks for letting me know. Yeah I just looked at spine and it seems to be a one time purchase that is even cheaper than one year of sprite studio.

[@CardrisCreations-iq7zs]

@@CobraCode spriter pro is even cheaper, to be honest it is the best one especially for IK and there is a new version coming which will be free for the current customers.

[@CobraCode]

@@CardrisCreations-iq7zs Spriter pro does indeed look nice. I can't seem to find an SDK or any sort of implementation with Unreal Engine though. Do you just export stuff as sprite sheets and then import them in UE?

[@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.

[@azhawking]

wish i could have stayed with unreal, but my laptop cant handle unreal sadly. I wanted to stick with unreal.

[@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.

[@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.