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Unity Hyper Casual Game - Exploring Hexa Sort Mechanics
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Unity Hyper Casual Game - Exploring Hexa Sort Mechanics

Learn & Create Various Mechanics from the Hyper Casual Mobile Game - Hexa Sort
Created byTabsil Makes Games
Last updated 9/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • How to create a hexagonal grid using Unity's Grid Component.
  • Implementing symmetrical hexagonal grids for level design.
  • Controlling and manipulating hexagon stacks within the game environment.
  • Developing and implementing merging mechanics for hexagon stacks.
  • Techniques for identifying and solving common issues in game development.

Course content

5 sections • 26 lectures • 3h 8m total length

  • Introduction1:12

    Learn to build a hexagonal grid in Unity, create a procedural layout inspired by Hexachord, spawn and snap hex stacks, and implement the merging mechanic, with shader for main menu.

  • Understanding the Hexagonal Grid9:01
  • Procedural Hexagonal Grid7:58

    Create a procedural hexagon grid with a grid generator script, instantiating hexagon prefabs in a two-dimensional grid, controlled by grid size and world position mapping.

  • The First Stacks10:57
  • Coloring the Stacks9:41
  • A Better Hexagon Stack3:09
  • Controlling the Stack (Part 1)11:27

    Develop a stack controller that uses raycasts and mouse input to move hex stacks onto grid cells, with mesh colliders, layer masks, and occupancy checks to prevent overlaps.

  • Controlling the Stack (Part 2)7:22
  • Grid Cell Snapping5:25

    Move a stack by snapping it to a grid hex cell with occupancy check and raycast drag. Highlight target and place stack above the cell, or drop it if unoccupied.

  • Dropping Stacks on Empty Cells6:35

    This lecture covers snapping stacks to grid cells, dropping onto valid target cells, and reparenting stacks while disabling colliders to prevent moved items, paving the way for the merge mechanic.

  • Spawning New Stacks3:08

    Spawn new stacks by wiring a stack controller to grid cells, trigger on stack placement, and reset after three placements, while setting the game to 60 fps for smooth gameplay.

  • Merging Hexagons (Part 1)11:11
  • Merging Hexagons (Part 2)8:59
  • Merging Hexagons (Part 3)6:35
  • Completing a Stack13:58

    Refactor and modularize the hexagon stack mechanics by extracting neighbor grid cells logic. Compute similar neighbor grid cells, process complete stacks to destroy hexagons safely, and unparent before animations.

  • Hexagon Animations10:18
  • Rotating Hexagons3:37
  • The Merging Loop5:37

Requirements

  • Basic Coding Knowledge (Loops, Coroutine, Actions will be used)
  • The will to Learn Advanced Game Development Concepts

Description

Hey Friend!


In this course, you will learn how to recreate various mechanics and effects from Hexa Sort, a famous and trending hypercasual mobile game.


We will start by creating a Hexagonal Grid using Unity's Grid Component. (Way simpler than creating our own system)

After you've clearly understood how this works, we will tackle Procedural Hexagonal Grid Creation, the basics actually.


We want to create a symmetrical hexagonal grid that we can then edit to Create Levels.

You will also learn how to create levels, the quick way.


After creating our grid, we will tackle Spawning Hexagon Stacks and controlling them.


We will learn how to Snap Those Stacks on the grid and Merge everything when it makes sense.

The trickiest part of the system is, you guessed it, the Merging Mechanic. We need to Iterate over Every Cell that has been updated during the previous merge.

It might sound weird, but you'll know how to do that after completing the course!


I'm also going to include some lectures on the Shader in the Main Menu, because that's something I find cool.

And if you want me to Explore More Hidden Gems of this game, please let me know!


Ready to jump in? Enroll now!


Disclaimer : This is not a beginner course, you need to have some basic Unity & C# knowledge before starting this course.

It's best if you know about loops, coroutines & actions.

Who this course is for:

  • Aspiring Game Developers, new to game development and are looking to learn advanced game development right away.
  • Developers who have some experience with Unity and want to deepen their understanding of grid-based systems and procedural generation.
  • Game developers specifically interested in the hyper-casual genre and wanting to learn how to recreate mechanics from popular games in this category.
  • Individuals who develop games as a hobby or are working on indie game projects and are looking for new techniques and inspirations for their games.

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