Under Pressure - Devlog #3: Card System

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In this devlog I am gonna talk about how I develop my system for Card management. In this card game I needed to have a system to handle several parameters on each card, including position, rotation, visibility, smooth animation.

There are two main objects: Card and Deck. A Card is always parented to a Deck. The deck is a container of Cards that layout them in a custom order, position and rotation.

There is an initial state in the game, always the same. That guarantee all cards have an initial parent:

• Card #0 is already played on Board
• Card #1 #2 #3 #42 are in Diver's hand
• All others are in one of three Decks 4-14 / 15-28 / 29/41

There is five different Deck type in the Game. All of them implement the AbstractDeck.

An AbsractDeck has simply three methods.

When a card is added to a Deck this is executed:

1. Parent to new Deck
2. Update new Deck's cards positions (including new Card)
3. Update old Deck's cards positions too

This way I had great control on all behavior custom to each Decks.

Each UpdateCardsPositions is overridden for each deck.

• HandDeck need to display all player's cards facing in order, in a hand's way
• PickDeck are piling up, with their back facing
• BoardDeck display six cards per row with an offset between them
• HideDeck hide cards when there are used as Boost

Each card animations is made with LeanTween, keeping it's animation id and stopped if a new one occur.

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