Start Building a Tycoon Game
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Download Idle Tycoon Unity Project Source Code and Game Design Document
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Introduction to the Business Tycoon Course and Example Gameplay (1:58)
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Creating Your Unity3D Project (4:15)
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Create Your FIrst Tycoon Store (10:08)
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Create Your First C# Script (12:40)
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Update Your User Interface with Script Output (6:52)
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Tracking Money With Your First IF Statement in C# (7:39)
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EXERCISE: Show us the Money! Update the UI (7:13)
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Time To Make Money! Create a Basic Timer to Track the Time of your Store Income (16:32)
Expand Your Tycoon Game With Multiple Stores
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Watching Your Money! Setup a Progress Bar in Unity 5.0 UI (8:09)
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Getting Down To Business! Create a Simple Game Manager (19:00)
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Keeping Your Business Private - Understanding Private and Public Variables (9:44)
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Now You're a Tycoon! Setting Up Multiple Stores (11:07)
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EXERCISE: Expanding Your Empire! Create and Configure Multiple Stores (8:38)
Adding Features to Your Tycoon Game
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Automating the Store Timer (6:35)
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Improving the Cost Calculation of Stores (9:41)
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Displaying Store Cost on the Store Buy Button (9:35)
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Improving the Buy Button on the Store to Change Color and Other Features (10:45)
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Improving Your Image - Adding a Picture to Your Stores (7:42)
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Introduction to Unity Prefabs (14:53)
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Hiding Stores The Player Cannot Afford (17:50)
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Improve Gameplay with Small Code Changes (8:48)
Getting Down to Serious Business- Take Your Development Skills to the Next Level
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Improving The Game Manager Using the Singleton Pattern (9:58)
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Creating a UI Manager to Improve Game Design - Better Object Composition (14:09)
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Improve Your Game Design using Delegates and Events or the Observer Pattern (17:23)
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Getting Stores Their Very own Store UI Manager (11:31)
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Finishing Up Business on the Store UI Manager Refactoring (17:47)
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Getting More Efficient By Moving Code out of Unity Update Methods (33:36)
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EXERCISE: Make Your Business Private Only! (17:14)
Make Your Stores Easier to Manage by using XML for Maintaining Store Data
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Introduction to Loading Your Store Configuration Data from XML (6:08)
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Loading Game Data in from XML - It's really not all that hard! (16:28)
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NEW!!! Setting up a Grid Layout to Hold your Store Prefabs (6:53)
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Building Your Store Prefabs Automatically - Data Driven UI Design (18:57)
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Setting The Store Name from XML (8:10)
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Loading the Store Image from XML (7:46)
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Loading Additional Store Data (8:01)
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Creating an Event to Notify the Game Manager (11:29)
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Loading the Games Starting Balance From XML (13:05)
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EXERCISE: Give Your Company a Name (16:00)
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EXERCISE: Refactor the Load XML Code (18:20)
Add a UI to Unlock Store Upgrades - Managers to Automate Clicks for the Stores
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Create the Layout for Unlocking the Store Manager Upgrades (10:13)
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Programatically Create the Unlock Manager Prefabs (19:57)
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Setting Up Our Simple State Machine (14:38)
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Creating Our Method To Unlock the Store Managers (20:22)
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Learn How to Programatically Add a Listener To Your Button (17:49)
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Finishing Up the Store Manager UI (12:41)
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Overview and setup up for adding upgrades to our store (4:29)
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Setting Up The Interface For Your Store Upgrades (9:51)
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Creating The Prefabs For The Upgrades 43 (6:43)
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Modifying The Load Game Data Script To Support Our Upgrade Prefab (17:27)
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Unlock The Upgrade and Upgrade the Store Multiplier (11:27)
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Finalize (and Abandon) Our Single Upgrade Per Store Design (13:15)
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Modify the Design To Handle Multiple Upgrades Per Store (12:14)
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Creating a StoreUpgrade Class to Improve our Game Design (7:50)
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Adding a Listener To the Upgrade Button (12:17)
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Finalizing the Multiple Store Upgrades (14:55)
JULY 2017 UPDATE - Massive New Game Upgrade - Unity Business Tycoon 2.0
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Overview of the new Unity Business Tycoon 2.0 Upgrade (13:41)
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Looking at the New Game Manager - Namespaces, Constants, Setters & Getters (18:56)
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New Game Manager Methods and Understanding the basics of Coroutines (10:25)
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Resetting our game and understanding static methods and properties (18:54)
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Loading and Managing BIG NUMBER Descriptions (19:59)
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Introduction to the Idle Game Data Generator - Loading From CSV FIles (18:08)
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Generating Idle Game Data into XML (14:31)
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Creating a Custom Inspector and Refactoring to eliminate using prefabs (17:53)
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Using a Custom Inspector to Generate Idle Game Data (13:37)
