The “2.5D” perspective offered constant personality and style, taking advantage of the DS’s increased power and allowing the developers to experiment with power-ups, level design and aesthetics.

Note that you lose everything and not just the level – if you want to change the way your character behaves you can do. You could even make level 2 a first person shooter if you wanted!

With countless unlockables, 4-player co-op (5-player on Wii U), a host of playable characters, impeccable controls, beautiful graphics and nearly unmatched attention to detail, "Rayman Legends ...

A complete tutorial explaining how to create a very basic 2D platform game for Android with touch-screen controls in Unity. By the end of part one you will have a working APK that lets you control ...

EuroVideo will bring developer Bonus Level Entertainment’s Fox n Forests, a new 2D action platformer Kickstarted in 2016, to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Swith, PC (Steam), Mac, and Linux this sp… ...

However, there were also some excellent 2D Nintendo 64 platformers, both published by Nintendo and not, that stayed true to the 2D genre while taking full advantage of 3D animation. 7 Lode Runner 3D ...

Hipster Whale, the Melbourne-based studio behind the 2014 iOS hit Crossy Road, today revealed their next project: a multiplayer 2D platformer that will be exclusive to Apple Arcade.