Trust in Me

Since I am submitting Trust in Me, my game for the exhibition at the international animation film Fantoche for the Student’s Contest at the IGF, I had a reason to collect a lot of material.

So, you may profit as well:

Not only does Trust in Me have its own page now, it also has a video!

How not to do it:

using System; using UnityEngine; using System.Collections; using System. Collections.Generic;

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Just a few notes from the battlefield that is my game for Fantoche:

Build Order Matters

Whenever you get the error message «The type or namespace name <type/namespace> could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)» in Unity when trying to access a component on another GameObject, do not bother to rewrite your complete code.

Since I already played around with XML in C#, this part of the project was easier to do than before.

What is it supposed to do?

Basically, I could simply hard-code most of my strings used in the game directly into the code – no one would notice the difference anyway. But obviously, this is not a very good idea, both because editing strings and later translating them becomes a pain.

Creating some data that would allow me to get strings out of an XML file would solve this problem – and, if the code is good enough, be reusable in later games.

It would allow me to edit text independently of the game code and add translations on a later date.

Since I want to make some basic statistics for my game at Fantoche, I needed some basic logging function of the player’s position.