2D Character Movement - Game Kit

2D Character Movement - Game Kit is a complete starting point for creating a responsive 2D side-scroller character controller in Unity.

This asset includes a fully animated pixel-art character, movement scripts, combat logic, health and damage systems, enemy support, and extra prefabs to help you quickly build and test a simple side-scroller scene.

It is designed for developers who want to skip the most time-consuming parts of building a character movement system from scratch and start with a functional, configurable, and game-ready base.

Key Features

• Fully configured 2D side-scroller character controller
• Precise and responsive movement
• Ground detection system
• Jump system with coyote jump and jump buffer
• Walk, run, dash, back dash, roll, hard stop and 180° turn support
• Attack combo system
• Configurable damage per attack
• Player health, damage and death system
• Enemy health, damage and death system
• Damage and impact feedback
• Ready-to-use prefabs for quickly building a test scene
• Includes the original Aseprite file with all character animations
• Easy to adapt using your own character animations

Character Animations

The package includes 34 character animations, with 4 color variations of the same character.

Included animations:

• 5 Idle variations
• Walk
• Run
• Turn 180°
• Hard Stop
• Jump Rise
• Jump Mid
• Jump Fall
• Land
• Running Jump Rise
• Running Jump Mid
• Running Jump Fall
• Running Land
• Roll
• Roll Turn 180°
• 7 Attack animations
• Exhaust
• Get Up
• Hit
• Terminal Operate
• Defend
• Defend Hit
• Back Dash
• Dash

Included Systems

The character comes fully configured with scripts for:

• Character movement
• Ground detection
• Jump
• Coyote jump
• Jump buffer
• Jump cutting
• Roll
• Roll buffer
• Dash
• Back dash
• Attacks
• Attack combo flow
• Player health
• Enemy health
• Damage handling
• Death logic
• Configurable attack damage
• Damage and impact feedback

Extra Scene Prefabs

The asset also includes extra prefabs to help you build a simple side-scroller test scene, including:

• Windows
• City background with parallax effect
• Plant pot
• Sofa
• Picture frames
• Wall lamps

These props can be used to quickly assemble a clean indoor environment for testing movement, combat, and scene composition.

Use Your Own Character

If you already have your own character, you can replace the included animations with your own sprites and keep the movement, combat, health, damage, and feedback systems working as a base.

This makes the asset useful not only as a complete character kit, but also as a foundation for custom side-scroller projects.

Perfect For

• 2D side-scroller games
• Action platformers
• Metroidvania prototypes
• Beat 'em up prototypes
• Pixel-art game projects
• Learning how to structure a 2D character controller
• Developers who want a ready-to-use movement and combat foundation

Why Use This Asset?

Building a responsive 2D character controller from scratch can take a lot of time. Movement feel, jump timing, coyote time, jump buffering, roll buffering, attack combos, damage feedback and health systems all require careful setup and iteration.

2D Character Movement - Game Kit gives you a functional base with these core systems already implemented, so you can focus on building your game instead of solving the same foundation problems from zero.