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DevBlog #9 - Game

     Hello everyone, today I have been hard at work fixing and debugging my card dealer script. Now the script it 100% modular and can scale with the additions of new cards, new techs, and new card holder slots on the UI. I have made it completely modular and controllable through the UI and unity editor.

    First I created 2 arrays, one for the action cards, and one for the event cards. The action cards then need to be sorted by their tech categories in order to make the percentage buffs assigned by the government the player has be taken into account. So in order to do this I sorted all of the action cards into their own arrays based on category. Then I have giant math system that chooses a random number and the ranges that these categories falls into change if/when the player has a government type. Then once the category is chosen, a random number between 0 and the length of the array is used to pick a random card that the user has. This card is then added to an array to temporarily store the card that was drawn. The process is repeated for as many available holders there are in the scene. BTW the holders can be assigned by simply dragging and dropping them into the public array in the unity editor. Once all of the action and event cards have been drawn a new function puts them into the correct location. For every holder we get its position, then we assign a card to each of the locations in the scene. Once again this is modular and scales with the amount of holders than you assign.

    I also added some changes to the card script and unit script. Now you can select the type of unit it is. Ranged, Naval, Siege, Land, or Religious. I also did a bunch of other quality of life updates making it so that the infrastructure behind the scenes was solid.

    However, so far I haven't been able to test it to see if it works as Nick has yet to send over the necessary game files meaning I can only build, and not test. However, I have been chugging hard and working on making these systems work well.

    To conclude, I also wrote a simple script that will be in charge of connecting everything together. Its called the player script and will be in charge of handling the drawing of cards, the picking of governments, the building of buildings, the training of units, and much more. Although, i still have to create a script that will allow the player to build, then I have to add to the script to make it so that the player can train. But after that we will have a MVP of our little game. Yay!

    Good bye, see you soon!

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