Programming and Game Design for DeckBuilding Games

A Practical Course in Programming and Game Design for DeckBuilding Games

Created by: TheCodingCult (aka Henrique de Carvalho)
College Teacher/Programmer/Indie GameDev

What Will I Learn?

• Create a card system, with functions for drawing, shuffling, etc
• Create UI and animations to display cards and show action feedback, like card going from deck to hand, from hand to discard, being played, etc
• Create an Input system for the player be able to Select, Drag, Skip turn, etc
• Create units and simple stat systems, as well as interactions with those values
• Create a modular effect system for the cards, including different targeting mechanisms, costs and requirements to use
• Create a State Machine to control the flux of the game
• Create a modifier system to deal with status effects, artifacts, etc and how those alter the stats

Requirements

• You need to have a good grasp on Programming Logic
• You need to have a good grasp on C#
• You need to have a good grasp on OOP
• You need to have knowledge of the Unity environment, equivalent to the course Game Development: Basic Games with C# and Unity 3D

Target audience

• Game Developers
• Recently Graduated Programmers
• Programmers with little experience on games
• Lovers of card games and deckbuilding games like Slay the Spire/Magic/etc