NicholasBallard / solitaire

A Solitaire clone made in Unity.

Solitaire

A Solitaire clone made in Unity.

A majority of the game is based off of the "Let's Make Soltaire in Unity" series by Megalomobile. I then made a few adjustments based on what I know (and am still learning!) about OOP and Unity.

As for the card art, I chose a pixel art style because I was inspired by Inscryption at the time. This is the first time I've actually done this type of style as well.

Notes

Changes done compared to the original tutorial

• Encapsulation: Several variables were set as public, which I've switched to private as there was no need for the Unity Inspector to see certain variables. Public methods were added if those private variables needed to be retrieved.

  • For variables that I wanted to keep public to be shared between scripts but still did not want it to be shown in the Inspector, I added
    { get; private set; }

• Avoided Update() on all scripts except for PlayerInput.cs. The game is interactive only through mouse clicks, so calling any other method through Update() was unnecessary.

• Utilized Awake(), where I instantiated the script's private variables and any GetComponent on the GameObject they are attached to.

  • Anything that involved other scripts and/or GameObjects was done in Start().

Further Development

• Allow player to choose between drawing one or three cards for the Talon pile.

  • Current implementation uses Toggle and is saved in PlayerPrefs. Upon exiting the Options Menu, the game is restarted (scene is NOT reloaded) with the updated preference.

  • Alternatively, ask option at the start of each new game. (May get tedious over time?)

• Allow the player to build sequences with double-clicks and/or drag-and-drop.

  • Double-clicks: Will probably need to use the EventSystem.

  • Drag-and-drop: Compare Collider on mouse up?

• Track score, time, number of moves, etc.

License

All artwork / assets used in this project is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 license.

The project's source code is licensed under the GNU General Public License.