Learn To Create A Farming Game With Unity 6 & C#

Create a new Unity 6 universal 2D project in Unity Hub, import the course assets, and remove unused tools to speed up development.

Set up a 2d scene with a main camera, save the main scene, and initialize a Unity tile map workflow with a new outdoor ground tile palette.

Set up ground and ground overlay tile maps, paint grass and leaves, avoid overlaps with eraser, and adjust sorting order to render properly.

Create a player object, attach a walking sprite, and set sorting layers so the player appears above the ground; add a rigid body 2D and disable gravity.

Create a first Unity script to move the player by exposing a public Rigidbody 2D reference; name the script to match the file name, and understand start and update lifecycles.

Learn to capture player input with Unity's input system, map move actions to a vector two, and apply it to player's rigid body velocity using move speed for character control.

Learn to normalize player input in Unity to prevent diagonal speed boosts, ensuring consistent movement, and optimize development with play mode settings that skip domain and scene reloads.

Set up player animations by creating an animator, building idle and move clips from sprites, and sequencing a right-facing walk cycle at 60 fps.

Set up and connect the animator to the player, create transitions between idle and move, configure a speed parameter, and drive animation with the Rigidbody velocity magnitude.

flip the player by scaling the x-axis with transform.localScale when velocity.x is negative, and reset when velocity.x is positive, using vector types for clean flipping and keeping items held intact.

Learn to make a Unity camera follow the player by creating a camera controller that finds the player by type, stores its transform, and updates position while preserving the z-axis.

Master camera confinement in Unity by using clamping with min and max position anchors, updating the camera controller, and detaching anchors from the camera to stay within bounds.

Compute half width and half height from the camera's orthographic size and aspect, then clamp the camera to min and max positions to follow the player in 2d.

Set up invisible borders with box colliders, add a capsule collider 2d to the player, freeze rotation, and use a zero-friction physics material to keep the player confined.

Design and place hard objects with tile maps in unity, using tilemap collider 2D and composite collider 2D to create solid environments, and manage layers for realistic overlaps.

Fix stray lines by using a 2d sprite atlas in Unity, packing sprites, and setting the texture size and filter mode to point to prevent line bleeding.

define a grow block with a growth stage enum (barren to ripe), and an advance stage function that progresses stages and wraps to barren using int casting.

Advance the grow block through barren, planted, and growing stages in a Unity farming game by pressing the E key, updating visuals with a soil tilled sprite.

Empower the player to plow soil by using a dedicated plowing tool and action input, whereby the grow block advances from barren to plowed and updates its soil sprite.

Create a Unity tool system using a tool type enum (plow, watering can, seeds, basket), track the current tool, and switch with tab or number keys.

Use switch statements to drive tool actions in a Unity farming game, validating the target block and executing plow, watering can, seeds, or basket based on the current tool.

Set up a bottom toolbar UI in Unity to show the active tool using a canvas anchored to the bottom and a Text Mesh Pro key indicator.

Create a ui controller on the canvas to manage toolbar activator icons with a gameobject array, using a for-each loop to deactivate icons and activate the selected one.

Learn to efficiently update the UI when switching tools in Unity by using a singleton UI controller via UIController.instance and casting the current tool enum to int.

Update at the start to reflect the currently selected tool, syncing with the awake function and UI controller, and set the watering can as the default plowing tool.

Add a water soil feature by implementing a public void water soil method and a watered state in the grow block, updating the soil sprite to show a watered version.

Create new tool animations for plowing and watering can, wire them to any state transitions in the animator, and trigger them from code with use plow and use watering can.

Limit movement while using tools with a tool wait time and a countdown. The player cannot move until the timer reaches zero, and velocity is reset to stop sliding.

Create a Unity planting system with a crop sprite renderer and four growth stages (planted to ripe), enforce watering and plowing before planting, integrating with grow block and controls.

Advance crops through growth stages by watering and pressing N to progress from planted to ripe. Use editor-only guards so this manual growth stays out of the final build.

Implement harvesting in a Unity farming game by adding a Harvest Crop method that checks for the ripe stage, resets the block to plowed, and enables basket-based harvesting.

Learn to build a dynamic harvest grid in Unity by creating a grid controller, auto-sizing from min and max points, and instantiating blocks with quaternion identity.

Calculate the grid size using Vector2Int from max and min points with Mathf.RoundToInt, yielding a 66 by 40 grid to fill with blocks.

Instantiate blocks across a 66 by 40 grid with nested for loops, position them on the grid, parent them to the harvest grid, and deactivate the original base block.

Learn to track generated grid blocks in Unity by creating a BlockRow class with a serializable list of blocks, and maintain a blockRows list to access each row efficiently.

Implement a layer mask overlap check to block block spawning on occupied tiles, using world objects and grid blockers layers, and flag blocked blocks as non-usable.

Implement a visual tool indicator that follows the mouse to show the selected grid block, by converting screen to world coordinates and fixing the z depth, with later grid snapping.

Access grid via a singleton grid controller and fetch a block with get block function using the tool indicator coordinates. Round and offset results from grid start to int indices.

Learn to clear the grid indicators in a Unity farming game by removing the grid indicator sprite or setting new blocks to null to improve grid visibility.