Trying to create an Match 3 game

Hello everyone...

I was trying to learn how to create an Match 3 game without downloading any new plugin. Using Arrays and Functions. I was reeding this website: gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/series/make-a-match-3-game-in-construct-2--gamedev-12721 and have some bugs in my project that I don't know how to fix them.

But this tutorial was posted 6 years ago, and all the links are broken and It's hard to comunicate with the owner of the site. Also, I don't want to spend money in any template of Match 3. If anyone know an free template for test I would appreciate very much.

I'm going to still trying to find more information about, in the Scirra Forum and in youtube also.

Thanks for reading.

I am also trying to find a way to make a game like candy crush, so far I found some examples but none with the limitation to only swap the sprites that make a match...

My old example for match-2:

construct.net/en/forum/construct-2/your-construct-creations-23/collapse-puzzle-events-67531

match-3 connection example:

construct.net/en/forum/construct-2/how-do-i-18/connecting-match-3-99339

I was able to make it work somehow.

It still needs tuning on the point system and it can't swap the off-color even if the sprite it swapped with is a match.

But it's a start, it may help someone to either make one or improve, so here's the c3p of what I was able to do so far.

drive.google.com/file/d/1bncRnHUif3oLiFFYTbqAZ5wo0_-Bgvzj/view

Thanks Alextro, even though I didn't use your examples because I had already started with this one following the tutorial, I found yours really pretty and interesting, I might give it a go in the future!