How to Make a Flappy Bird Clone in Unity (Beginner Tutorial 2026)
In this beginner-friendly Unity tutorial, you will learn how to create a Flappy Bird clone from scratch using the Unity game engine.
This tutorial covers the core concepts of 2D game development including player movement, obstacle spawning and collision detection, scoring system, game over logic, and more.
By the end of this tutorial, you will have a fully playable Flappy Bird style game and a solid understanding of how simple 2D games are built in Unity.
What you will learn:
• Setting up a 2D Unity project
• Creating player movement and jump mechanics
• Spawning pipes and obstacles
• Detecting collisions
• Creating a scoring system
• Game over logic
• Basic UI for score display
📚 Flappy Bird Assets:
https://megacrash.itch.io/flappy-bird...
📚 Download the Game Sound Effects:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folder...
⏰ Timestamps:
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:57 Installing and Setting Up Unity
00:04:42 Create New 2D Project
00:06:40 Navigation Inside Unity
00:07:07 Grey Boxing Technique
00:09:04 Adding Rigidbody2D and Collider
00:10:16 Implementing Jump / Player Controller
00:17:17 Creating the Pipe Obstacles
00:18:29 Adding Obstacles Movement
00:22:53 Spawning Pipes Automatically
00:29:22 Adding Graphics to the Game
00:38:48 Endless Scrolling Effects
00:43:25 Collisions Detection
00:45:36 Game Over Logic
00:50:43 Adding a Game Manager
01:01:42 Creating the UI (Score Display)
01:06:00 Creating the Scoring System
01:11:32 Adding Best Score
01:16:38 Adding Pipes Assets
01:21:41 Random Pipe Spawning
01:27:01 Adding Sound Effects
01:30:48 Outro
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