schkrabrty / 03-text101

A basic state-machine based text adventure exercise as part of http://www.CompleteUnityDeveloper.com

Introduction To Text101

• What Text 101 teaches
• Increase our scripting skills (nearly 200 lines!).
• The basics of “finite state machines”.
• Invite you to create and share your own story.
• Build our game to the web.
• Share with the world.

Section 3 Game Design Document

Your Text 101 Assets

Section 3 Notes

Creating New Projects

• Recap how to create and save projects
• Set Up and save your Text 101 project
• What gets 'carried over'
• Import your prison image asset
• Save your project

Adding 2D User Interface Text

• Adding a UI > Text element to a scene
• Setting the camera background colour
• Moving and scaling your text
• How to programatically change text
• Challenge: Change text only on key press
• Challenge: Add and scale the image

Word Wrapping & Joining Strings

Building Your Game Engine

• The structure of our “engine”
• What's an enum?
• Challenge: complete the story

Our TextController.cs Script

Re-Organising Your Code

• Update Your Update() Method
• Rename freedom to corridor_0

Extending Our Prison Story

• Add New State Methods.
• Create your own text adventure.
• How to enable code folding in Unity.
• How to use Region to fold code.
• Local Play Testing.

Our Extended Story Script

Build For Web & Share

• Encourage you to create your own story.
• How to build for the web.
• Test your build locally.
• Share using GameBucket.io or similar.
• Share with our community & Facebook.
• GameDev.tv Community
• GameBucket.io - Home
• Complete Unity Developer Facebook Group

Text101 Unity 5 & Web GL Build (Optional)

• Upgrade to Unity 5.
• About Web GL builds.
• Build for Web GL and share.

DOWNLOAD Section 3 Unity Project

Section 3 Wrap Up

• Recap and what's next
• Did you write your own story?
• Go on, be brave!
• Maybe ask a friend to write it?
• Build for the web.
• Share with our fantastic community