Match 3 Intermediate Game Design And Programming In Unity3D

Design and build a Match 3 game from scratch to production

What you'll learn

Start a game from scratch and take it all the way to production.

Learn to apply coding patterns and object-oriented programming in game development.

Discover how some of Unity's built-in functions work and can be used for your project.

Dissect and analyze the mechanics of a Match 3 game and learn to adapt them into your project.

Sharpen your C# coding skills with advanced algorithms and data structures.

Requirements

Students should know how to use the Unity Editor.

Students should know how to code scripts in C#.

Description

Welcome to my Udemy course on how to make a complete game from scratch in Unity.For this course we will be making a Match3 puzzle game.Some of the wildly successful Match 3 puzzle games you may have heard of or played are; Bejewelled, Candy Crush, Anipang, Puzzle & Dragon, and Zookeeper.These games all contain a grid of matchable objects. The player must swap 2 adjacent objects in the grid to form a matching set of 3 objects in a row or column and is rewarded with an increasing score. If larger matches are formed, the player is awarded a power-up which can help them achieve an even higher score.These games are extremely simple to play, having very limited input, making them accessible to a wide audience. However, the complexity of the grid system and randomization of the options available make the games difficult to master.In this course, you’ll learn how to apply coding patterns and object-oriented programming principles in Unity to produce a set of tools that will help you efficiently manage resources throughout the game development cycle. You’ll use these tools to build a Match 3 game from scratch, learning to use many of Unity’s features along the way. Unlike some other game development courses, the scripts you will write in this course will be structured, clean, efficient, and reusable for other projects.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Course Introduction

Lecture 2 Setup (optional)

Section 2: Tools

Lecture 3 Section 2 Introduction

Lecture 4 Lesson 2-1 : Singleton

Lecture 5 Lesson 2-2 : Object Pool

Lecture 6 Lesson 2-3 : Smooth Moves

Lecture 7 Lesson 2-4 : Grid System

Section 3: Core Mechanic

Lecture 8 Section 3 Introduction

Lecture 9 Lesson 3-1 : Populating

Lecture 10 Lesson 3-2 : Input

Lecture 11 Lesson 3-3 : Swapping

Lecture 12 Lesson 3-4 : Matching

Lecture 13 Lesson 3-5 : Resolving

Section 4: Extra Mechanics

Lecture 14 Section 4 Introduction

Lecture 15 Lesson 4-1 : Repopulating

Lecture 16 Lesson 4-2 : Chain Reactions

Lecture 17 Lesson 4-3 : Branches

Lecture 18 Lesson 4-4 : Upgrading

Lecture 19 Lesson 4-5 : Powerups

Section 5: Polish

Lecture 20 Section 5 Introduction

Lecture 21 Lesson 5-1 : Combos

Lecture 22 Lesson 5-2 : Hints

Lecture 23 Lesson 5-3 : Audio

Lecture 24 Lesson 5-4 : Visuals

Lecture 25 Lesson 5-5 : Menus

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