Free Unity Assets For 2D Game Development for Prototyping
These are some of the free assets that can help you quickly prototype a game and not worry about having to script basic control movements. I hope this helps others and saves them loads of time. Unity Game Engine beginners tip do not pay for assets until you have something you cant create or find for free, heres a list of free unity assets you can use in your next game. Heres a list of 20 assets stores to check out. If you are thinking about what assets to get take a look at this and then make your decision. Feel free to suggest assets to add!
Already got all the free assets? Check out the paid assets list that beginners should check out here.
Systems Assets:
Free Platform Game Assets - from Bayat Games this asset comes with basic script for controlling your 2d platformer character, also has few assets that can help you create a simple mario clone.
Endless-2D Terrain Generator - by Neil Meredith "Endless - 2D Terrain Generator allows you to rapidly create rule-based terrain and prefab placement to get your infinite runner into the app store in no time."
2D Forest Designer (FREE) - there is a paid version but this is fine if you just need to create a basic forest for a prototype game.
2D Jungle Side-Scrolling Platformer Pack - use this to prototype a jungle level quickly with out spending any money!
Standard Assets - this is unitys free assets comes with basic controls for your character.
Ultimate Game UI - "This package includes hundreds of elements essential for any game: lots of icons, health bars, mana bars and much more. Graphics for shop pages, level select pages, player stats and more. Will be perfect for RPGs, match-three games, platformers and other!"
RPG Inventory Icons - Dont make those icons from scracth free icons are everywhere this is just a small example!
FREE Casual Game SFX Pack - from DUSTYROOM if you need some basic sound effects for you game this assets pack got you covered.
Unity Particles Pack - Free particles pack from unity like everything else free, its perfect for a basic prototype game if you need something more specific maybe look at other assets stores or purchase the one you need.
diamond Visual Scripting - Free visual scripting solution
EZ Pooling - Free pooling tool
Light2D - GPU Lighting System - by Alexander Penkin free lighting system for 2d game development, you can purchase the pro version for more specific features.
2D Dynamic Lights and Shadows - by Martin Ysa free lighting also has a pro version.
LeanTween - "LeanTween is an efficient tween engine that offers a many of the same features as the other tween engines (and more!) while having much less overhead."
DOTween (HOTween) - "DOTween is a fast, efficient, fully type-safe object-oriented animation engine, optimized for C#.It is also the evolution of HOTween, my previous Unity tween engine."
