Camera for my next game

voglioUnaBistecca

Hi, I want to create my game with a style of IWBTB / Cuphead (because I want a skilled based game). The problem is that the story start from a village. I think that you can't really build a village in a 2d platform game so I was wondering if the camera could change into the "Pokémon mode" (2d from top, like every doungeon game). Do you think there are better solution to this? When I start the mission and enter the level, is it ok that change of camera?

Thanks, I hope I explained myself.

Hayashininja

I'd say it would be totally okay to do it :) Just think about The legend of Zelda 2 which have a simmilar thing going from overworld to sidescroller :)

voglioUnaBistecca

Yep thanks!! I asked in other communities too and someone told me the same (sadly I didn't play any Zelda). Will try it once I know how to develop games! XD

Hayashininja

You should ;P And I think it would be easy to just have a different camera in the village scene and the sidescroller scene :)

voglioUnaBistecca

Ahahah, maybe someday I will try it/watch some video. Btw, just because you are still here XD, what projects would you suggest to learn and experiment more and faster? I was doing right now a simple platformer (but with art, music made by me, so I know how to make and use them). I won't use assets for this purpose. I'm not going into level design for those projects (just test if things I want to do works).

After that I want to try space shooter (different movement, enemy spawn randomly etc.)

And after that a simple rpg (different style of game, different camera, different art etc.)

What can I do after those projects? My goal as I said is to try new things. I will post a new thread about that, but wanted to know what you think xD

Harry_Hopkinson

This code here works for 2D camera follow. Just send the code to the Main Camera in the hierarchy.

using System.Collections;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using UnityEngine;

public class CameraMovement : MonoBehaviour {

public GameObject player;

private Vector3 offset;

// Use this for initialization

void Start () 

{

offset = transform.position - player.transform.position;

}

// Update is called once per frame

void LateUpdate () 

{

transform.position = player.transform.position + offset;

}

}