March 3, 2026
The Ultimate 2D Top Down Unreal Engine Course
Title:
The Ultimate 2D Top Down Unreal Engine Course
By:
Cobra Code
Description:
Comprehensive course of learning the basics of Unreal and creating 2D projects with it, with a focus on Paper2D.
Overview:
I wanted to get some general Unreal experience, and was recommended this interesting tutorial, so figured this would be a good place to start. While Unreal is primarily an engine for 3D projects, this course specifically targets how to create a 2D project using it. I thought this would actually be a good starting point because it still covers all the general Unreal basics, while exploring something a bit off the conventional path seemed like it’d also help teach me some of the more niche aspects of the engine thereby making it wider than a lot of other intro courses.
This course also has you create several entirely separate 2D projects, covering a lot of types of games I am interested in. The first is a fully topdown adventure demo in the lines of a Pokemon type game. The second is another fully topdown game that resembles older 2D Zelda titles, with combat. The third is what they call a 2D/3D hybrid, resembling an Octopath Traveler, which combines 2D and 3D assets, and is something I could see Unreal being particularly good to use to build.