Make a 2D Top Down Game in Unreal Engine 5 - Tutorial

Get my 12 hour course on how to make 2D games with Unreal Engine: Support the channel on Patreon: A lot of you have asked and I’m happy to finally show you how you can make a 2D Top Down Game in Unreal Engine 5. In this tutorial we’ll use the free PaperZD plugin since it comes with built in support for multi-directional animations! Top Down character by axul arts: PaperZD Plugin: Tile set by axul arts: Enhanced Input system documentation: If you enjoyed this video, please subscribe: ● Twitter: ● Discord: Timecodes: 0:00 Intro 0:34 Activating PaperZD 0:54 Preparing Character Sprites 8:45 Setting up the Character Blueprint 11:55 Creating Top Down Animations 14:09 Creating the Animation Blueprint 15:55 Setting up the Enhanced Input 20:30 Adjusting Project Settings 22:30 Setting up the Sprite Direction 24:45 Switching between Idle and Moving 26:25 Adding wall detection 29:45 Making it a 2D/3D Hybrid 🎵 Music By: mell-ø - thinking about you Provided by Lofi Records Watch: Download/Stream: 📥 | Download this music (free) → Icons made by Freepik () from Flaticon () #cobracode #gamedev #unrealengine #ue5