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Unity 2018 By Example - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788398701
Pages 484 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Unity 2018 By Example - Second Edition
Contributors
Preface
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1. Unity Fundamentals 2. Creating a Collection Game 3. Creating a Space Shooter 4. Continuing the Space Shooter 5. Creating a 2D Adventure Game 6. Continuing the 2D Adventure 7. Creating Artificial Intelligence 8. Continuing with Intelligent Enemies 9. Entering Virtual Reality 10. Completing the VR Game Test Your Knowledge Answers Index

Timers and countdowns


You should now have a level complete with geometry and coin objects. Thanks to our newly added Coin.cs script, the coins are both countable and collectible. Even so, the level still poses little or no challenge to the player because there's no way the level can be won or lost. Specifically, there's nothing for the player to achieve. This is why a time limit is important for the game: it defines a win and loss condition. Namely, collecting all coins before the timer expires results in a win condition and failing to achieve this results in a loss condition. Let's get started at creating a timer countdown for the level. To do this, create a new and empty game object by selecting GameObject | Create Empty and rename this LevelTimer. See Figure 2.25:

Figure 2.25: Renaming the timer object

Note

Remember that empty game objects cannot be seen by the player because they have no mesh renderer component. They are especially useful to create functionality and behaviors that don't...

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