Looking For Match 3 Help

#1 You'll have to keep references to all of your objects inside somesort of object. To keep it neat, you should create a script object that holds all that information, plus the methods to check it, create new pieces and so on.

In order to keep the pieces, you could use arrays with lists, for instance (and this is just an example, the actual lists would have to be created by your game logic):

new scriptObject (Board) {
   Line[1] = "1 2 3";
   Line[2] = "3 3 3";
   Line[3] = "1 1 1";
}

This means that in the line 1 column 1 the color of the object would be 1, in the line 2, column 2 it would be 3.

You can also use bidimensional arrays, like this:

new scriptObject (Board) {
   Pos[1,1] = "1";
   Pos[1,2] = "2";
   Pos[1,3] = "3;
(bla bla bla)
   Pos[3,3] = "1";
}

In any of those you could access the values directly, using Board.Line[ %lineNumber ] for the whole line or, the second example Board.Pos[ %X, %Y ]. Assuming you would do all the logic inside Board functions access would be %this.Line[ %lineNumber ] or %this.Pos[ %X, %Y ].

To check the values, the easiest and worst way would be to recursivelly check every piece using a for statement inside another for statement and run all board checking left and right, up and down.

Hope this gets you started.

#2 If you drop me a note, I can send you my learning project which is a Match-3 'game' focused on getting key features working and not really worrying about making a fun game.

TGB Learning Project
TGB Learning Project (Continued) <- this one has my email address

#3 If you decide to represent your game board / pieces as a tilemap / tilelayer then you can use that object to check for matches as well, since a tilelayer is essentially a 2d array.

Tilelayers are something important to check out in general.