[Unity Level Up!] Modular Item System

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What is Unity Level Up Series? 🤔

Developers who are still inexperienced in development spend most of their development time implementing simple functions, but developers who have reached a certain level of development skills spend most of their development time systemizing functions so that they can be reused and expanded.

Building a proper system that can be used for a long time is a very difficult task for inexperienced programmers because it requires knowledge of design and structure as well as a deep understanding of the functionality you want to systematize.

The Unity Level Up series aims to help students advance their development skills by teaching them how to develop core game systems and how to build efficient systems through modular programming.

Modularly developed item system 🎇

The item system is a core system that gives players the fun of growth and collection regardless of genre, from RPGs to simulation games.

In hack-and-slash games like Diablo or survival games like Tarkov, items are treated as core content that motivates farming and playing the game, rather than simply a system that supports the character. Acquiring, strengthening, and combining various items encourages you to try new builds every time, adding depth and purpose to the monotonous gameplay.

A well-made item system in a game like this is a very important system that keeps users engaged for a long time.

However, creating an expandable item system is not easy. Items require basic systems such as stats and inventory, and systematic logic is also needed to create a simple and clear system without many classes being tangled. If you start development without thinking about this structural design, you will face terrible spaghetti code that is a mess of if statements and switch statements trying to implement all the functions in one item class.

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In this course, you will learn how to build a flexible and scalable item system using modular programming, starting with the creation of a data management tool based on over 7600 lines of code . You will also learn how to conveniently manage game data by converting item data to Excel and Google Spreadsheets.

Features of this course

📌 This is a difficult course recommended for those who find beginner courses easy.

📌 Explains various advanced techniques that increase development productivity.

📌 We create a commercial asset-level skill system that doesn't end with a simple example.

📌 10% examples, 90% code. Over 7600 lines of code packed tightly.

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After class

• Modular programming allows you to break free from the swamp of if and switch statements and instead use structured programming.

• You can create tools that increase your development productivity using custom editors in Unity.

• You can convert data into Excel and Google Spreadsheets with code.

• I can create unique items for my game.

• You can build various functions into the system.

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Basic Framework

You will learn how to write basic classes such as stats and how to create convenient tools to help manage data. You will learn how to manage stats as a single object rather than a code base, and how to apply stat values to various places without hard-coding.

Item System

Learn how to develop an item system that allows you to easily create and systematically control a variety of items in a modular manner, as well as how to develop functions that utilize items such as crafting, drop tables, and set items.

Data ↔ Excel/Google Spreadsheet

Learn how to use NPOI to export data from a local database to Excel/Google Spreadsheets and then re-import the modified data.

Things to note before taking the class ❗