This week in Active Premium, we'll show you how to complete your Bejeweled-style Match 3 game, adding a title screen, a scoring system, and a Hint button; improving the game mechanics; and incorporating sound effects. In other words, a lot of polish!
Final Result Preview
Let's take a look at the final result we will be working towards:
Switch each jewel into a position where it completes a line of three the same..
Worth Noting..
- The code in this Premium tut is divided into several folders (one per milestone) and the assets are all available in a separate folder too. Useful :)
- We'll build on what we've already developed by adding a title screen, a scoring system, a Hint button, incorporating sound effects, adding animations and a fancier interface, increasing the number of gems and reducing lag.
- Game mechanics are also improved. We'll add "chain matches" preventing any matches from existing "naturally" when the game board is first randomly set up.
- Finally, we'll be adding separate game states (i.e. title or game).
Images
Take a look at a couple of the helpful diagrams sketched out to illustrate what's going on while you're coding:
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Sample our Wares..
The best way to demonstrate the value of a tut is to give you a sample, so why not dive into the first 8 steps of this series right now?. This short chunk will bring you to the first milestone; going Premium will give you access to the whole lot!