Start Building Your Tycoon Game
- Introduction to the Business Tycoon Course and Example Gameplay
- Creating Your Unity3D Project
- Create Your First Tycoon Store
- Create Your First C# Script
- Update Your User Interface with Script Output
- Tracking Money With Your First IF Statement in C#
- EXERCISE: Show us the Money! Update the UI
- Time To Make Money! Create a Basic Timer to Track the Time of your Store Income
Expand Your Tycoon Game With Multiple Stores
- Watching Your Money! Setup a Progress Bar in Unity 5.0 UI
- Getting Down To Business! Create a Simple Game Manager
- Keeping Your Business Private - Understanding Private and Public Variables
- Now You're a Tycoon! Setting Up Multiple Stores
- EXERCISE: Expanding Your Empire! Create and Configure Multiple Stores
Adding Features to Your Tycoon Game
- Automating the Store Timer
- Improving the Cost Calculation of Stores
- Displaying Store Cost on the Store Buy Button
- Improving the Buy Button on the Store to Change Color and Other Features
- Improving Your Image - Adding a Picture to Your Stores
- Introduction to Unity Prefabs
- Hiding Stores The Player Cannot Afford
- Improve Gameplay with Small Code Changes
Getting Down to Serious Business- Take Your Development Skills to the Next Level
- Improving The Game Manager Using the Singleton Pattern
- Creating a UI Manager to Improve Game Design - Better Object Composition
- Improve Your Game Design using Delegates and Events or the Observer Pattern
- Getting Stores Their Very own Store UI Manager
- Finishing Up Business on the Store UI Manager Refactoring
- Getting More Efficient By Moving Code out of Unity Update Methods
- EXERCISE: Make Your Business Private Only!
Make Your Stores Easier to Manage by using XML for Maintaining Store Data
- Introduction to Loading Your Store Configuration Data from XML
- Loading Game Data in from XML - It's really not all that hard!
- NEW!!! Setting up a Grid Layout to Hold your Store Prefabs
- Building Your Store Prefabs Automatically - Data Driven UI Design
- Setting The Store Name from XML
- Loading the Store Image from XML
- Loading Additional Store Data
- Creating an Event to Notify the Game Manager
- Loading the Games Starting Balance From XML
- EXERCISE: Give Your Company a Name
- EXERCISE: Refactor the Load XML Code
Add a UI to Unlock Store Upgrades - Managers to Automate Clicks for the Stores
- Create the Layout for Unlocking the Store Manager Upgrades
- Programatically Create the Unlock Manager Prefabs
- Setting Up Our Simple State Machine
- Creating Our Method To Unlock the Store Managers
- Learn How to Programatically Add a Listener To Your Button
- Finishing Up the Store Manager UI
JUNE 2017 UPDATE - Add Upgrades the player can purchase to improve their store
- Overview and setup up for adding upgrades to our store
- Setting Up The Interface For Your Store Upgrades
- Creating The Prefabs For The Upgrades
- Modifying The Load Game Data Script To Support Our Upgrade Prefab
- Unlock The Upgrade and Upgrade the Store Multiplier
- Finalize (and Abandon) Our Single Upgrade Per Store Design
- Modify the Design To Handle Multiple Upgrades Per Store
- Creating a StoreUpgrade Class to Improve our Game Design
- Adding a Listener To the Upgrade Button
- Finalizing the Multiple Store Upgrades
JULY 2017 UPDATE - Massive New Game Upgrade - Unity Business Tycoon 2.0
- Overview of the new Unity Business Tycoon 2.0 Upgrade
- Looking at the New Game Manager - Namespaces, Constants, Setters & Getters
- New Game Manager Methods and Understanding the basics of Coroutines
- Resetting our game and understanding static methods and properties
- Loading and Managing BIG NUMBER Descriptions
- Introduction to the Idle Game Data Generator - Loading From CSV FIles
- Generating Idle Game Data into XML
- Creating a Custom Inspector and Refactoring to eliminate using prefabs
- Using a Custom Inspector to Generate Idle Game Data
