Setting up the project

At this point, I have assumed that you have Unity freshly installed and have started it up.

  1. With Unity started, go to File | New Project. Select Project Location of your choice somewhere on your hard drive, and ensure you have Setup defaults for set to 2D. Once completed, select Create. At this point, we will not need to import any packages, as we'll be making everything from scratch. It should look like the following screenshot:
    Setting up the project
  2. From there, if you see the Welcome to Unity pop up, feel free to close it out as we won't be using it. At this point, you will be brought to the general Unity layout, as follows:

Note

Again, I'm assuming ...

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