Level Management in Unity

Project updates to Unity 2019.

Download the Sample Game Project from the link in the Resources.

In this video, we review syntax for the basic loading of Unity Scenes.

Challenge yourself to extend the Scene loading methods.  Create methods to reload the current Scene and load the next Scene automatically.

Let's create a new menu screen that allows the user to select specific levels in the game, instead of forcing us to start at level 1.

Our first new script describes the details of each level's mission, including its name, description, unique id and any decorative elements we'll use in the menu.

Let's create a list of these Missions and store them in a ScriptableObject, a useful container for storing data in the Unity project.

Here we create a new Canvas and UI Prefab and mock up a simple layout for our Level Selector.

Here we make a simple class that can select a single Mission from the MissionList, always staying within bounds of the list.

We will create a custom LevelSelectMenu component to connect the UI with the data in our ScriptableObject.  This will complete our basic level selector.

In this video, we link the LevelSelectMenu to the MainMenu and make the Play button work!

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