Thanks to everyone who contributed to our 2D Challenge! We received 212 awesome submissions that underlined the creativity, passion, and excitement among game developers across our 2D community and around the world.
You produced some great art while helping optimize the new 2D tools we’re building for your future projects, and using the tools in real development scenarios is the best way to make sure they’ll work the way you need them to.
2D always presents unique challenges and opportunities — and your entries hit an incredibly high bar, making clever use of many Unity 2D tools (see below for a list) in a very short time frame. Before you see the winners, take a look at these samples from some of the great submissions!
Six judges reviewed and scored each project based on its “wow” factor, use of the new 2D tools listed below, project documentation, and overall creativity. The winners are:
Rounding out the top-10 finalists are: Onion Jam, Darkrun, LensScape, Kamé and the Guardians, Tess, Cosmic, and Llamakaria.
In addition to the major awards, we gave a special $500 prize to LensScape for the best tool created with the new 2D tool APIs. The winner showed us an innovative way to extend 2D tool functionality by making SpriteShape the core of the gameplay.
One of our judges, Pixel Reign’s Angelos Gkamiliaris, noted, “It is amazing to see such a variety of unique ideas combined with such craftsmanship in development. We were inspired to see how different each approach was and how creatively each participant spent their time while making their game. Well done! We really hope to see some finished games from you.”
And many thanks to all the 2D Challenge judges: Kenney Vleugels (Kenney/Pixeland), Angelos Gkamiliaris and Nick Larin (Pixel Reign), Ciro Continisio and Andy Touch (Unity evangelists), Rus Scammell (Unity 2D product manager), and Peter Lee (Unity art director).
Discover the latest new features in the making and connect with the dev team on our 2D Forum.
To learn more about new and upcoming Unity tools for 2D games, watch this presentation from Unite Los Angeles.
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