Creating Simple Enemy AI to Chase the Player (Unity Tutorial

Uploaded December 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

In this Unity 2D tutorial we're going to look at how to create an enemy with some basic AI, that chases the player if they get too close.

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

The playlist for this series can be found here
► youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx7AKmQhxJFajrXez-0GJgDlKELabQQHT

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Want to follow along? This project is a good starting point
► patreon.com/posts/74343725

The final script can be found here
► dotnetfiddle.net/fwnJ6E

The assets used in this video can be found here
► tokka.itch.io/top-down-basic-set

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Introduction - 0:00
Creating the Enemy Game Object - 00:30
Creating the Player Awareness Script - 04:12
Creating the Enemy Movement Script - 07:14
Trying it out - 11:55
Summary - 12:24

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