Match 3 Jelly Garden Kit

Foundation for Match-3 Puzzle Mechanics

The Match 3 Jelly Garden Kit is a long-standing project within the Unity ecosystem, designed to serve as a comprehensive starting point for puzzle game development. The kit includes 100 tested levels that provide a baseline for gameplay balancing and mechanic testing. These levels are intended to be used as a structural foundation, allowing developers to see how specific puzzle configurations function before expanding into their own custom content. The core loop is supported by visual and tab-based game tutorials, ensuring that players are introduced to the mechanics through integrated instructional systems.

Creative Control via Visual Level Editing

A primary feature of the kit is the integrated Level Editor, which allows for the creation of unique game stages without the need for manual programming. This interface enables developers to focus on the spatial logic and difficulty curves of their puzzles. Because the editor is designed for ease of use, it streamlines the pipeline between conceptualizing a level and testing it within the Unity environment. This is complemented by an IAP (In-App Purchase) Editor, which provides a dedicated interface for configuring the costs and quantities of in-game items, further decoupling economic balancing from the underlying code.

Mobile Optimization and UI Adaptability

The kit is built with a focus on mobile platforms, featuring a user interface that automatically resizes to accommodate various device types and screen resolutions. This responsiveness is critical for maintaining visual consistency across different aspect ratios. Recent technical updates have transitioned the project to the New Input system, ensuring compatibility with modern control schemes. Additionally, the kit includes specific refinements for newer mobile hardware, such as aspect ratio fixes for modern devices and improved background switching logic to enhance the visual transition between game states.

Integrated Social and Monetization Frameworks

To support the community and economic aspects of mobile gaming, the kit includes pre-implemented Facebook features. These allow for social interactions such as displaying friends on the game map, maintaining leaderboards, and facilitating invites and shares. The monetization framework is equally broad, supporting multiple ad providers including Unity Ads, Admob, and Chartboost. It also supports rewarded video ads, which are integrated into the gameplay loop via the Life Shop and Coin Shop. These systems allow players to obtain currency or lives by engaging with advertisements or through direct purchases facilitated by the integrated Unity IAP service.

Technical Refinements and Pipeline Support

The Match 3 Jelly Garden Kit has undergone various iterations to maintain compatibility with modern Unity versions, specifically targeting the 2022.3 LTS release and providing verification for Unity 6. Technical improvements include the replacement of sound assets with high-quality wav files and a refactoring of the menu manager and sound scripts to improve overall project performance. The asset package also utilizes the Unity Reorderable List under the MIT license, which is documented within the package’s third-party notices. These technical updates ensure that the kit adheres to current performance standards while resolving common issues such as script directive errors and animation flow bottlenecks.

Functional Kit Assets

With nearly 700 individual assets included in the unitypackage, the kit provides a wide array of resources to populate a match-3 project. Beyond the core puzzle logic, the package includes systems for a Booster Shop, a Privacy Policy template, and specific logic for handling in-game ingredients and star ratings. These components are designed to work together to create a complete game loop, from the initial loading screen to the final win animation. The kit serves as a functional template for those looking to build upon established match-3 and match-2 mechanics within a mobile-optimized framework.