How to represent a dynamic tile like map in Unity

I am not that familiar with unity and my question is quite newbish in terms of what I want to accomplish which is a game that I can represent and interact with like a tiled based system

to help understand I have an example:

I have a 3x3 block of gameobjects on top of a single ‘floor’ gameobject which represents a 3x3 game ‘map’

the functionality I have is as follows.

if I click on the game object I wish to destroy, it is destroyed using the following code

	if (Input.GetButtonDown("Fire1"))
	{
		RaycastHit hit;
		var ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay (Input.mousePosition);
		if (Physics.Raycast (ray, out hit, 100.0f))
		{
			Debug.DrawLine(Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay (Input.mousePosition).origin, hit.point);
			GameObject.Destroy( hit.collider.gameObject);
		}
	}

Here are the before and after screenshots

before

[36861-3x3+wall+on+box+stretched+10+x+10.png|36861]

after

[36862-destroyed+section+of+wall.png|36862]

my question is how can I replicate this functionality using a 256x256 map where I am not using GameObjects (as I cant use 65536 game objects to represent my map). The ‘wall’ sections need to be collidable. I’m quite stuck with this problem and I’m not particularly sure what I should be even searching for to get answers.

I’ll update the post as required as I’m not sure how to explain this better.

Thanks for taking the time

Because a picture explains a thousand words using my modest talent at Microsoft Paint I have done an artistic impression of what the tile based map ‘thingy’ would look like if I carved a 3x3 hole in the middle of the map with the camera looking down it.

Edit: It wont let me put more than two pictures up so my artistic talent will have to wait another day

You’re going to need to get very friendly with procedural geometry generation and the Mesh class.

Take a look at the Jarheads game.