Creating a Game Board

This page is still incomplete

Intro:

While I’m still self-studying game design theory, and how to design a good game. I figured I should start practicing how to implement portions of a game. The game I’m aiming to develop is a turn based strategy game, played on a 2D grid. For today, I’m going to investigate how exactly to create an interactable grid gameboard in Unity2D. I will also explore best ways to save and store different game maps. I’m initially thinking about storing map data in 2D arrays.

• system.serializable displays values into the unity editor
• make classes for data types (ex: questionData class that holds question text and answer options)

Level Generator

• make levelGenerator gameObject
• represent a map using pixel colors in image, or an array
• make prefab for each tile type
• make class that represents mapping from value to prefab (ie. ColorToPrefab)
• [serial.serializable] makes class iteratable
• Instantiate prefab using the Object.Instantiate function

Tilemap vs Prefab Tiles

• What does monobehavior mean btw?

Plan for Development

1. Create prefab for a single tile
2. Create a script that instantiates one instance of the prefab
3. Use local integer array to instantiate multiple prefabs into a grid
4. Create a script that highlights the last clicked tile
5. Create script that imports integer arrays from a json file

GameBoardObject

• spawns board tiles in a grid
• parent to all the board tile objects

BoardTileObject

• Texture (based on type of tile)
• Unit on Tile
  • Is it better to have the Unit save its position, or the position save the unit? (for now we do the latter)

• 2D Collider to register mouse over and mouse click events

• Is it better to have one boardTileObject prefab and create separate sub-components to represent different types of tiles? (for now we will)

I was successfully able to create the game board. Will add screenshots and a summary in the near future :)