Defold Mini-Course: Character Movement and Shooting

utm_content=youtube_2025_minicoursedefold Build your own 2D action RPG from start to finish in Defold! Action RPGs remain a cornerstone genre in game development, challenging creators to bring together exciting combat and immersive systems. In this course, you’ll create a top-down action RPG project where the player must survive and shoot a barrage of randomly spawned enemies. These skills will empower you to tackle more advanced game mechanics in Defold, and serve as the perfect springboard to designing your games with action-based gameplay in mind. A solid understanding of Defold and Lua is needed for this course. You’ll learn how to: - Implement player movement and controls - Create a dynamic camera with boundaries - Build simple enemy AI behaviors - Add health bars that follow entities - Structure levels with scenes and menus - Spawn enemies and projectiles in-game … and more!