Example Projects

Simple DeckStacker card games are provided in the Unity Package to help give you examples of how it can be utilized.
The example games are:

• Stacks Demo
• War
• Tic-Tac-Toe
• Jumble Chess

Example Project: Stacks Demo

Stacks Demo Scene

This is a very basic implementation of DeckStacker. To access it, load the following scene in Unity:

DeckStacker/StacksDemo/Scenes/StacksDemoScene.unity

This scene demos some fundamental functionality of DeckStacker.

In it, you will find:

• A variety of Stacks
  • Throughout the scene, there are examples of different arrangements of cards (rows, columns, piles, tight, loose, fan, and undefined)
• Clicking on cards will “select” them
  • When a card is selected: Clicking on another card or stack will send the selected card to that stack.
• Long-press on a card will fade that card to be semi-transparent
• Click-and-drag on a card in the “Player Hand” will initiate a “grab” on the card, allowing you to drag the card around the screen.
  • The Player Hand has grab-reordering enabled, allowing you to change the order of the player hand.
  • Letting go of the drag will return the card back to its place in the Player Hand
• No gameplay in this one. Just cards being moved and arranged.

Example Project: War

War Card Game Scene

This is a simple implementation of the child’s card game War. To access it, load the following scene in Unity:

DeckStacker/WarCardGame/Scenes/WarCardGameScene.unity

• This is a very bare-bones game, which only asks the player to click on one button: “Flip”
  • This will initiate a turn in War, which will automate the result, including if there is a tie.
• I have added an additional rule for War: Jokers are allowed in the deck, and will automatically be considered a tie, no matter what the opponent’s card is.
• This demos DeckStacker’s action queue fairly well, and will even queue up additional presses of the Flip button, allowing the player to spam the button and watch a series of turns take place.

Example Project: Tic Tac Toe

Tic-Tac-Toe Scene

This demo is a simple implementation of the child's game TicTacToe. To access it, load the following scene in Unity:

DeckStacker/TicTacToe/Scenes/TicTacToeScene.unity

• It was made to demo how a card’s state can be changed, including the art on a card.
  • When the game starts, all cards are considered “generic” and are face down.
  • When a player clicks on a card, the game reads whose turn it is and will change the card to that player’s card, and then flip it.
  • Afterwards, the board state is evaluated and a winner or CAT is declared, if the game is over.

Example Project: Jumble Chess

Jumble Chess Scene

This demo is the most complex demo game: A variant of chess. To access it, load the following scene in Unity:

DeckStacker/JumbleChess/Scenes/JumbleChessScene.unity

This game demonstrates a game with much more complicated rules, but it still boils down to the same concept (one thing happens at a time).

• High concept:
  • A chess game where the pieces are all cards
  • Pieces are face down at start
  • Pieces are shuffled before being distributed on the board.
• Additional rules…
  • If you flip over a piece and it has a valid move available, you must move it.
  • With the exception of the King, pieces can stack on top of eachother.
  • When a player takes a space occupied by their opponent, the player takes ALL pieces in that space, not just the top piece.
  • Long press on a space with more than 1 piece, and a tooltip will appear, displaying the pieces in the stack.