Timbeaux's 2D Character Controller Toolkit

Generate a fully playable top-down 2D character from a spritesheet in minutes!

The 2D Character Controller Toolkit is a complete and extensible solution for building polished top-down 2D action RPGs and adventure games in Unity.

It provides a fully featured character controller alongside powerful editor tools that automate character setup, animation generation, and action creation. Developers can go from a spritesheet to a fully playable character with minimal manual configuration.

Character & Gameplay Systems

• Top-down 4-way and 8-way movement with acceleration, deceleration, and optional smoothing
• Dash system with configurable speed, duration, cooldown, and optional invulnerability
• Melee attack system using hitboxes and animation-driven timing
• Modular action framework supporting attack, dash, interact, and custom actions
• Interaction detection with simple, extensible interact logic
• Health, damage, invulnerability frames, hit stun, and death handling
• Optional audio hooks for footsteps, attacks, dashes, and death
• Automatic Y-sorting based on world position
• Camera follow with smoothing, dead zones, and optional camera shake

Editor Tools

• Character Generator 2D
  Automatically generates a fully wired character prefab, animator controller, and all directional idle, walk, dash, and attack animations directly from a spritesheet.
• Character Setup Wizard 2D
  Retrofit the system onto existing characters by automatically adding components, wiring references, and configuring defaults.
• Action Creator 2D
  Generate new gameplay actions from additional spritesheets, including animation clips, animator states, and bindings.
• Toolkit Launcher
  Quick access to all toolkit tools from a single window.

Demo Scene

A complete demo scene is included featuring:

• A playable character and enemies
• Interactive objects and sample props
• Lighting, environment setup, and Y-sorted world navigation

The demo scene serves as both a reference implementation and a starting point for experimentation.

Documentation

• Quickstart Guide
• Spritesheet Composition Guide
• Full inspector tooltips and inline documentation

Licensing & Third-Party Content

This package contains only original scripts and original demo assets created by the publisher.
No third-party fonts, audio, images, or code libraries are included.

All spritesheets etc are original, hand-created content. 

This toolkit is ideal for developers creating top-down RPGs, action-adventure games, survival games, roguelites, town sims, and any project requiring a responsive and extensible 2D character controller.