Match-3 Starter Kit – Just released!

Hey guys,

first off, thank you for using this kit (plaese write a review!).

The 2.1 version is now live and I've no problems/bugs/enhancement requests on my to-do list, so, as I'm working on a Match-3 myself (using this kit!), I do see that something can be done to make it better ;)


Here's a shortlist of what will be in next release (very shortly!):

• Multiple animations and effects for the Mouse Over event
• More intelligent Hint System
• Being able to tell the game (in the Inspector) if we want the special pieces to fall out of the board if they reach the bottom line
• Ability to allow special moves, like move on an empty place if under a blocked piece
• Ability to play two independent boards per screen

If you people want to add something to the list... just post here or PM me ;)

Cheers!
Pino

What would be the best way to load a new board instead of a new scene?

Does this starter kit work with the free version or do I need a pro license?

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Originally Posted by Juntaou

Does this starter kit work with the free version or do I need a pro license?

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No Pro needed ;)

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Originally Posted by MattyMatt

What would be the best way to load a new board instead of a new scene?

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Honestly I assumed that each new level is a new scene, the idea of restarting the scene over and over it didn't came to me.

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Originally Posted by PinoEire

Honestly I assumed that each new level is a new scene, the idea of restarting the scene over and over it didn't came to me.

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Having many scenes could make your game's file size to be unnecessarily large. This isn't a problem when it comes to PC/OSX builds, but it's pretty serious when you are making a game for mobile platforms, which mostly will limit your app to be not more than 20 MB.

I'm interested in buying,but would like to try it first just so I can have a good feel how it plays. Any chance you could release web game or a .exe demo I could try? Even just a sample scene would be great.

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Originally Posted by himatako

Having many scenes could make your game's file size to be unnecessarily large. This isn't a problem when it comes to PC/OSX builds, but it's pretty serious when you are making a game for mobile platforms, which mostly will limit your app to be not more than 20 MB.

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I was thinking there was a way to use StartBoard and supplying a different Column and Row num for a new board. That way after CleanSlate I could just call a function and pass the new board to load.... as opposed to creating a new scene for every board that would be around 40 scenes...

Its me again ;).... After much time spent with delegates I am seeking out out. I am trying to simply load a scene when the players time runs out but when the player choses to go back to the level they lost and try again the level loads already in the "TimeOutMethod: state (delegate) and just quits back to the lost scene... I have gone through many tutorials on delegates but I cannot seem to get this to work, if I could get some help with this I would very, very much appreciate it (i have been working on it independently for quite sometime). I am sure its an easy solution I just cant get how delegates are used in the Board class and why even after loading another scene and coming back its in the same state as I left it.

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Originally Posted by MattyMatt

Its me again ;).... After much time spent with delegates I am seeking out out. I am trying to simply load a scene when the players time runs out but when the player choses to go back to the level they lost and try again the level loads already in the "TimeOutMethod: state (delegate) and just quits back to the lost scene... I have gone through many tutorials on delegates but I cannot seem to get this to work, if I could get some help with this I would very, very much appreciate it (i have been working on it independently for quite sometime). I am sure its an easy solution I just cant get how delegates are used in the Board class and why even after loading another scene and coming back its in the same state as I left it.

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No Help??? I'll say please...

Hi Matt,

sorry for the delay: we're in the middle of porting all active projects on Unity 3.5 and that has taken quite some time, actually we barely read the email these days... a lot of overtime to work and still not there yet. I'll have a look to your email and answer you ASAP.

Cheers,.
Pino

Hello... Has anyone developed "powerups" or added custom special pieces for the system as of yet? Such as just the traditional Match 4 power piece? Iam having problems following along. I thought I would use the given "special piece" as a guide, however I need to be able to generate a special piece when a match 4 is is made..... Not created randomly if a Blocked Tile is present. Right now, it seems you can either have Match 3 or 4 but cannot check for both such that:

1) Is the match more than 3? ----- If we have Matched more than 3 then use one of the given pieces to spawn a given special piece in its place ----

If I could get a starting point for the above I could probably move forward. If the above logic could be developed than there would be other possibilities such as developing combo, or cascade points based on the number of matches...

Any help would be very much appreciated.

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Originally Posted by PinoEire

Hi Matt,

sorry for the delay: we're in the middle of porting all active projects on Unity 3.5 and that has taken quite some time, actually we barely read the email these days... a lot of overtime to work and still not there yet. I'll have a look to your email and answer you ASAP.

Cheers,.
Pino

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Hello, I plan on purchasing this starter kit but I figured I might as well wait for the 3.5 port update. Any news on when its scheduled to be finished or did it already occur?

Hi Jaleel,

that post was referring to the project port of all our active tasks, not implying code changes on this Kit. The Kit isn't version dependent and no issues have been noted by any user up the current Unity version (3.5.1) ;)

/Pino

Awesome, thanks for the news ;)

Hi All,

I noticed on the Asset Store product page that a couple of people rated this kit very poorly. None of them ever submitted a bug to me (actually I don't have any bug open for this project), and as far as I can tell the Kit works as expected on all the platforms supported by Unity.

I didn't check with the 3.5 but not being reported any bug and selling steadly I've no reason to believe that there is a problem. At any rate I'll check the kit with the 3.5.2 to see first hand if any issue is there.

/Pino

Ok, just added a new video showing that the Kit works on all the supported platforms. Tested with the very last Unity and Xcode versions. The video also shows the demo running on Kindle Fire. While testing I found a minor issue, so one of these days I'll send out an update as well ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUamBw9YtF8

In release 2.2:

• Fixed a crash happening when selecting an empty cell (thanks for the finding!)
• Lowered the price to $30 for a limited time

It'll be live by tomorrow I guess ;)

Next Release (in a week time) will include:

• a counter to report the total tiles destroyed on the last move
• a simple way to reuse the same scene over and over again

Thanks for asking those features! Please feel free to post your requests: as usual we'll gladly add them to the Kit ;)

/Pino

We are glad to announce that our Match-3 Starter Kit Update 2.2 is available, so grab the update rigth away!
If you don't have it yet please note that it's on the Asset Store! at a special reduced price of just $30 for a limited time ;)

Looking forward to the update with the counter.

Hello, I want to destroy multiple pieces around a sing piece such as a "Bomb" piece in many other Match 3. I have been working within the case statement that changes Tiles Type and where a piece gets destroyed. How would I correctly go about triggering the pieces and/or tiles surrounding a piece to be marked as Done or marked as a match to trigger the piece destroy sequence?