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Learning C# 7 By Developing Games with Unity 2017

You're reading from   Learning C# 7 By Developing Games with Unity 2017 Learn C# Programming by building fun and interactive games with Unity

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788478922
Length 290 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Micael DaGraça Micael DaGraça
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Preface 1. Discovering Your Hidden Scripting Skills and Getting Your Environment Ready FREE CHAPTER 2. Introducing the Building Blocks for Unity Scripts 3. Getting into the Details of Variables 4. Getting into the Details of Methods 5. Lists, Arrays, and Dictionaries 6. Loops 7. Object, a Container with Variables and Methods 8. Let's Make a Game! – from Idea to Development 9. Starting Your First Game 10. Writing GameManager 11. The Game Level 12. The User Interface 13. Collectables 14. Enemies 15. Audio, 3D Games, and Export

Starting the game


At the moment, our gameplay starts automatically after pressing the Play button in Unity. This was convenient for testing running and jumping. If you look into the Start method in GameManager, you will notice we are calling the start game there. Let's remove that line and keep the Start method empty for now.

Further, in the development of this game, we will have a nice Graphic User Interface (GUI) to control the game states by pressing buttons such as Start Game and Restart. For now, we should focus on functionality only and leave the GUI for later. However, we do need an easy way to call the events at runtime. Why not use the keyboard for now? You probably remember using Input.GetKeyDown. If you don't remember much about it, dive into Unity Scripting Reference again and search for Input.GetKeyDown.

Let's say that each time user presses S on the keyboard, we will fire up the StartGame method on GameManager. Before we start adding code, we need to make sure that currentGameState...

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