Learn How to Make Trading Card Game Menus With Unity 3D | Free Udemy Course

This Course provides a detailed guide on making menus for trading card games (TCGs). We`ll cover browsing the collection of cards, building decks, opening card packs, crafting cards. The project provided in this course also contains a battle scene that you can use to test your custom cards and decks.

Download all the Saved Projects that we used during the course.

Available files:

• CardGameMenusCourse StartingProject.zip (57.2 MB)
• CardGameMenusCourse MainMenu.zip (57.2 MB)
• CardGameMenusCourse Shop 302.zip (57.2 MB)
• CardGameMenusCourse Shop 304.zip (57.2 MB)
• CardGameMenusCourse PackOpening 309.zip (57.2 MB)
• CardGameMenusCourse DeckBuilding LowArea 404.zip (57.2 MB)
• CardGameMenusCourse Character Tabs 405.zip (57.2 MB)
• CardGameMenusCourse CollectionBrowser 407.zip (57.2 MB)
• CardGameMenusCourse DecksStorage 412.zip (57.2 MB)
• CardGameMenusCourse Deck and Character Selection 505.zip (57.2 MB)
• CardGameMenusCourse Final.zip (57.2 MB)

In this Section we`ll discuss storing all the data about the cards in our project in an organized manner. We`ll learn how to sort cards, filter them by certain criteria, return sub-sets of our collection that satisfy certain conditions (e.g. neutral cards that have mana cost of 3). In the last Lecture we`ll make a mock-up of a simple menu with Unity UI.

In this Lecture we`ll get familiar with a method that we use to store cards in this project as assets that you can create inside of your assets folder in Unity. This requires us to make the CardAsset class of type Scriptable object. By the end of this Lecture you will learn how to create your own custom assets to store any data that you need in your game.

In this Lecture we`ll continue our exploration of the CardAsset class. We`ll go through all the public fields and discuss what they mean and how they affect the properties of the cards in the game.

In this Lecture we`ll take a look at the class CardCollection that will keep track of all the CardAssets that we have created in the project. It will take care of filtering our collection by various parameters like: Mana cost, Rarity, presence of certain keywords, etc… CardCollection will help us obtain subsets of cards that satisfy all these custom parameters.

In this Lecture we`ll examine the rest of the methods that are present in CardCollection class, including the methods that save and load quantity of each card that our player owns into PlayerPrefs to keep track of his card collection.

In this Lecture we`ll create the main menu with Unity UI. It will feature items like: Play, Collection, Shop and Quit. We`ll also create a bunch of empty game objects that we`ll use to structure the screens that we`ll show to our players in the game.

This Section will be entirely dedicated to buying and opening card packs. We will make a separate screen for this purpose and explore the scripts that we need to let players buy booster packs, open them and add new cards to their collection.

In this Lecture we`ll make the HUDs to show the values of our in-game currencies (money/coins and dust/spare parts). Money HUD will be shown in the shop screen where we buy packs and Dust HUD will be displayed in our collection when we enter crafting mode and want to disenchant cards.

In this Lecture we`ll study the script that manages the pack purchasing process, takes care of saving values of Dust and Money that our player has into PlayerPrefs. It also manages the transition from the main menu to the shop screen and vice-versa.

In this Lecture we`ll work in Unity and our goal is to assemble the shop/pack opening screen. It will consist of the area that will hold the unopened packs, a so-called pack opening area that we`ll drag packs on to experience the pack opening and several UI Buttons.

In this Lecture we`ll make some final adjustments to the look of our Pack Opening screen. We`ll also discuss how dragging (drag and drop) works in the game. We`ll have to make one custom dragging script that will be used to drag unopened packs onto the pack opening area.

In this Lecture we`ll take a look at the scripts that will be attached to our card pack object and handle dragging of the pack onto the opening area and pack opening when the pack is already on top of the pack opening area.

In this Lecture we`ll discuss the prefabs of cards that our players can get from opening the card packs. These cards should not have the full functionality like the cards that we use in the game. We should only be able to turn them over and show them face up towards our players.

In this Lecture we`ll create all the buttons that will be featured on the Pack Opening screen and connect them to their on click handler methods. We`ll troubleshoot some errors and make sure that the pack opening is fully functional.

In this Lecture we`ll cover the last script that we have not examined yet that handles our pack opening process – the PackOpeningArea.cs. It is responsible for generating the cards that our players will get from packs and deciding on their rarity, spawning card objects where our card pack is and allowing our player to return back to the main menu or open another pack when the process of pack opening is over.

In this Lecture we`ll make a quick overview of all the elements that we`ll have to re-create in order to make collection browsing work in our course menus scene. These elements include: window background, left and right buttons, tabs to show cards for a certain character class or neutral cards, a list of decks that our players have built, etc…

In this Lecture we`ll establish a general layout of our collection window. We`ll make a background of the window and placeholders for the lower panel with various filters and the top panel with character tabs.

In this Lecture we`ll discuss how to make an interactive element that will let us filter the collection by a certain mana cost (from 0 to 7+). If all the buttons on the mana filter are not pressed, we`ll just get cards of all mana costs shown to our player.

In this Lecture we`ll discuss how to make a toggle that will let us show/hide cards that our player does not own. The second element that we`ll look at in this lecture is a customized version of an InputField that lets us show only those cards that have a certain keyword in their title/description/tags.

In this Lecture we`ll organize character tabs that will let us select either the cards that belong to one particular class or neutral cards, the ones that can be used by all character classes. There will be a special tab that will let us show all the cards at once.

In this Lecture we`ll take a look at the scripts that control character filter tabs in the project. Each tab will have a script CharacterFilterTab attached to it. This script will contain a button handler method that will be called when we press on the tab and a couple of methods that control visual transitions of our tabs. Another script is called CharacterSelectionTabs, it serves as a manager script that handles all the tabs at once and ensures that only one tab is highlighted at a time.

In this Lecture we`ll re-create the grid layout that will mark the positions for cards in our collection. We`ll also study the script CollectionBrowser.cs that is in charge of spawning cards on top of the grid in our collection window and making sure that the cards that we display satisfy all the selected filters (mana cost, keyword, presence in our collection, belonging to a certain character).

In this Lecture we`ll continue studying the methods of CollectionBrowser.cs. We`ll cover the methods ShowCards() that will instantiate the card prefabs on top of a page in our collection and a method PageSelection() that will return a sub-set of the cards that satisfy all the selected filters that are appropriate for this page index.

In this Lecture we`ll continue studying the methods of CollectionBrowser.cs. We`ll cover the methods ShowCards() that will instantiate the card prefabs on top of a page in our collection and a method PageSelection() that will return a sub-set of the cards that satisfy all the selected filters that are appropriate for this page index.

In this Lecture we`ll add a DeckBuildingScreen.cs script to our screen. We`ll try to establish all the public references in this script to make.

In this Lecture we`ll bring in some more objects that are required for our Deck Building screen to function correctly. One of them will control the crafting screen, another object will hold a collection of all character assets defined in the project and store them in a Dictionary using their names as keys.

In this Lecture we`ll take a look at the script DecksStorage.cs. This script manages decks that your players can create and save in the game. Saving and loading is implemented using both Unity`s standard PlayerPrefs and a custom public access script PlayerPrefsX that allows to store arrays in PlayerPrefs.

Our plan for this Section is to cover all the remaining elements of our deck building / collection browsing screen that include the crafting screen and 2 lists that hold card names and names of pre-made decks.  We`ll also re-create character selection and deck selection screens that are required to build new decks and start a new card battle.

In this Lecture we`ll examine the structure of the crafting screen that our players will use to craft or disenchant cards. We`ll take a look at the manager script CraftingScreen.cs that takes care of displaying cards on the screen, keeps the trading costs for crafting / disenchanting cards of different rarities and contains button handler methods that will be called when we craft or disenchant the card that is currently displayed on the screen.

In this Lecture we`ll check out the screen that is used to select a character before building a new deck. This screen will contain items that look similar to the character portraits in the game and a bigger portrait for the character that is currently selected (controlled by HeroInfoPanel.cs script).

In this Lecture we`ll assemble the screen that is used for selecting one of the pre-made decks and entering Play mode with this deck. We`ll examine the screen manager script DeckSelectionScreen.cs and the script DeckIcon.cs that is attached to each selectable deck icon in the scene.

In this Lecture we`ll check out the Hierarchy structure of the lists that are used to display pre-made decks and cards in deck. We use a combination of Unity`s built-in components (ScrollRect, ContentSizeFitter, VerticalLayout group) to achieve the desired layout of elements in the list.

In this Lecture we`ll take a look at the scripts ListOfDecksInCollection.cs and DeckInScrollList.cs that are used to manage the decks scroll list in collection. They cover the following functions: adding items into the list and deleting existing items, showing or hiding Delete Deck button on hover, transition to deck building mode if we press on one of the items to edit the deck that it represents in the list.

In this Lecture we'll take a look at the scripts DeckBuilder.cs and CardNameRibbon.cs that are used to manage the scroll list with cards that players add to their deck in deck building mode. They cover the following functions: adding or removing cards, showing or hiding the frame visual element depending on deck's state of completion, saving the deck when we press Done or quit the application.

In this Lecture I`ll demonstrate how you can set up a game against a simple AI in our project. Make sure to download the final project for the latest error fixes. It was a pleasure making this course for you. Thanks for watching and good luck with your own trading card game projects