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#1

Thank you for making this excellent course!! I truly enjoyed following along and I got what I came for - and a lot more. This couse truly covers all the knowledge needed to start working on your own turn-based strategy game.

My motivation for taking this course was to learn about the action system. I have been toying with a small turn-based game myself, and I got stuck in a hell-of-complexity situation with my unit-action-system. The one you implemented is so easy to follow and extend, so you really helped me along. On top of that, there were some improvements to my grid-system that I made because of what you showed in this course.

Some suggestions for a future (next level) extension to this course:

  • When you implement an action, it would be nice if you also added a appropriate animation for it, when it makes sense. I know you teach how to do it, but when you implement the grenade action, I had hoped that you would show how to use a throwing animation and how to detach the grenade via the timeline at a certain point in the animation. That would have been an excellent way to show how to use the timeline for triggering functions at certain time-points.

  • How to implement fog-of-war. You show the beginning of such a system in the “Final Level” video, but it would be so nice to see how this could be extended to use a stencil shader or something similar to apply a more organic fog of war.

  • The course is very grid-oriented wrt to actions. Most actions need you to click the floor tile to activate the action. For movement, this makes perfect sense - but for shooting at a enemy, it makes much more sense to click the enemy model rather than the floor the enemy is standing on. Same for interactions - makes more sense to click the object to interact with rather than the floor it is on.

  • In the “Polish” section, maybe show how you can use Render Features to show silhouettes of units behind objects.

Hope you find these suggestions useful :slight_smile: And once again, thank you for this excellent course.

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#2

Hi @Vulture

Thanks for the feedback, I’m sure @CodeMonkey will appreciate it.

If you are interested, I wrote a long, somewhat cringey post on how to target the enemy by clicking on them instead of the grid. You can find it here: Shooting at enemy by Click on ‘em instead the grid?

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#3

Hi @bixarrio

Thank you for your pointer to your post about updating the code so that I can click enemies to shoot them. My suggestion was to include this in the course to make the way the game works more intuitive. I managed to implement this myself because I have several years of Unity experience, but other course participants might not have the skills to do this. So, your post will surely be helpful :slight_smile:

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#4

That’s a large part of the Community experience here. Hugo had given the structure of the game, and already many users have worked up extensions to improve on it.

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#5

Thanks for the suggestions, I’m glad you enjoyed the course!

When I made the first prototype for this course I did make a Fog of War system but didn’t end up including it in the final course in favor of other things (like the interact action)
But since you’ve gone through the whole course you should be able to understand the code in the original prototype which you can download Code Monkey - I made XCOM in 25 HOURS! (plus Special Announcement!)
Basically for Fog of War you fire a bunch of raycasts and see where they hit something, this is much more dynamic than the simple system that is used in the Final Level, that one is just a black sprite hiding some part of the map and then revealing when the player moves to a certain position.

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