Modular Growth System

Overview

As a game designer, you often need to make things grow and adapt based on changing conditions.  That's where Growth by Serket Studios comes in.  This tool allows you to define, design, and develop modular growth systems for use in Unity Engine.  Set conditions, visuals, status effects, resources, and more.

Whether you're making a cozy farming sim, a factory builder, or a real-time strategy game, this system has the tools you need to create entities that grow over time.  You can pause or trigger stages using events, define custom status effects for buffs or debuffs, track stats like health or stamina, hold user-defined resources, and have your entities spawn drops using a variety of strategies.

From plants to animals to buildings to vehicles, if it's got stages, we've got you covered.

Using our system, you can quickly define custom menus to help spawn prefabs in the Editor for rapid assembly.  Drag and drop components.  Define Scriptable Objects for growth data, products, growth stage behavior, custom resource types, event channels, status effects, and drop strategies.  Highly modular and extensible.

Included

The following is a high-level overview of what's included in the package:

• Base Growable Class
• Growth Data SO
• Growth Stages SO
• Product / Drop SO's
• Growth Inventory
• Growth Event Channels
• Growth Stats System
• Growth Status Effect System
• Resource Type SO
• Growth Drop Strategy SO
• Growth Conditions
• Growth Visual Components for syncing visuals to stage progress
• Visual modifiers for color, mesh, sprite, animation, and more.
• Extension methods for quick access and filtering
• Debugging tools for text, stages, resources, and stats to sync with UI and other systems.
• Demo scenes showcasing how to use the system
• Sample data for use in demos
• Mock objects to showcase integration with timers, inventories, and controllers.

The package also includes several Editor scripts as part of the Ptah Tooling system.  These include:

• Custom menus for rapid generation of prefabs
• Preview exporter for saving transparent PNGs of prefabs for use in UI, textures, promotion, and elsewhere

See the full Read-Me and demo scenes that come with the package for more details on how to use and extend this system.  Made with Unity 2022.3.32f