A Beginner Level Introduction to Prefabs (Unity Tutorial

Uploaded December 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

In this tutorial we're going to look at the basics of prefabs in Unity, and how we can use them to add multiple identical enemies to the scene.

This is the fifth video in our series showing how to make a full top down 2D shooter game in Unity.

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Introduction - 0:00
Creating the Enemy Prefab - 0:32
Updating the Prefab to Add Collisions - 2:20
Overriding Prefab Settings - 4:57
Summary - 5:56

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