How to get flat lighting in Unity and C#?

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I'm pretty new to lighting in Unity, but I've asked on Unity forums and pored over questions like http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/955346/flat-lighting-for-3d-game-with-orthographic-camera.html but I can't achieve the same lighting as Crossy Road - flat, vibrant colors but with shadows enter image description here.

From tutorials I know I need a directional light, but all my directional lights wash out my colors and don't evenly distribute. Right now I have an ambient light, only problem is no shadows:

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What can I do here? Are there specific settings to try?

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You should post a picture of your attempts with the directional light since that's ultimately what's needed for the final result. We need to see the issues you're facing with it. - Soviut
Crossy Road dude just used bright colors. honestly, that's all there is to it - Fattie

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The shading is "flat" because the objects are:

  • composed of faces that are generally at right angles to one another
  • no curved surfaces
  • shader should treat light sources as being at infinity
  • shader should not vary colour as a function of a point on the face and light angle
  • max diffuse shading
  • zero specular shading

You may also want to turn on hard shadows