Sprint 3 First Iteration/Prototype – Programming, mechanics and events

Fig 1. Masters 2022. Screenshot of Card System in Unity

Fig 2. Masters 2022. Screenshot of PlayMaker CardDropped

I used a script for the cards to drag and drop, which I can now apply to any object. But the cards are placed anywhere on the screen which doesn’t look very neat! I also need to count the points on the card later on.

Romi Fauzis’ ‘Word Scramble Game with Playmaker – Unity’ utilised similar mechanics to the card game I am building. While the tutorial is designed for a simple scrabble game, it’s the perfect starting point for a card game, instead of scrabble tiles we have building cards and instead of letter points, we have CO2 emissions!

The objects are using a C# script to drag and drop but I also could have used PlayMaker to do this.

The Climate Change Track was considerably more complicated because there are little to no tutorials on creating this kind of mechanic and took most of the sprint to get working. Counting the points on the cards was easy, and the climate change track would go up. When you place enough ‘green’ points the climate change track should go down again – this is where I spent a lot of time trying to work out why the sums did not add up. Essentially, the green points were being counted twice due to a miscalculation.

Fig 3. Masters 2022. Screenshot of Climate Change Track Points

Fig 4. Masters 2022. Screenshot of Climate Change Track and Cards

The grid system is half set up, due to setbacks, so I have pushed this task to Sprint 5 where I will be creating buildings and art assets.

I have set up a grid, and you can place buildings but there is some extra juice I would like to add like painting the background and setting up a system to show the player available building slots.