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hello everyone welcome to this video on

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making a tower defense game in unity

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today we are going to have a look at

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unlocking levels but Before we jump into

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unity and get started I just have a few

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things that I wanted to address the

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first one being I am now on a fixed

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video schedule that means every

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Wednesday and Sunday that's Wednesday

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and Sunday I'll be uploading a new

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tutorial I've actually been on the

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schedule for quite a while but for some

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reason I just haven't really told it to

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you in a video and yeah no particular

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reason why I'm just a doofus and the

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second thing is I got a new camera and

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I've been experimenting a bit with kind

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of the layout and setup for these

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tutorials so let me know what you think

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of this new setup and yeah please be

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constructive about it but I definitely

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want to hear what you guys have to say

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so that I can fine-tune it because I'm

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still figuring out some of this stuff

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and that's also the reason why this

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particular video is uploaded on Thursday

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and not a Wednesday is because I messed

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up something with the new camera it's

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pretty embarrassing but I shouldn't have

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nice stuff so yeah I had to postpone it

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a single day oh and I forgot to mention

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that this previous weekend was Ludum

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dare a which is an awesome game

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development competition where you get 48

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hours to make a game from scratch using

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only code and assets that you create

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yourself I participated and you can find

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my submission in the link in the

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description so check that out if you

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want and definitely expect a

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behind-the-scenes video as soon as I can

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get that done so yeah let's jump into

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unity so let's get started by opening up

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our level select scene and also our

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level selector script so just double

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click that and it will boot up in Visual

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Studio and here you can see we simply

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have a reference to our fredo script

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which is responsible for changing scenes

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smoothly and we also have our public

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void select and that's currently just

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called by the different buttons but our

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script has no reference to the buttons

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in our scene it doesn't know what they

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are they simply call this function so

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let's start by creating a list or more

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specifically an array of all of the

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buttons that we currently use in order

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to be able to change to a certain level

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so to do that let's create

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of course a public variable and we need

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these to be of type button but that's

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not included by default we need to go up

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here and say using unity engine dot UI

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and now we have access to the button

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class then we can call the button array

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here and we need to mark it as an array

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by opening and closing these square

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parentheses we can call this one our

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level buttons now when we save this and

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head back into unity and when we then

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select our level selector object with

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our script we should see a new array

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that we can resize more specifically we

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can add two new elements and of course

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we want to add our two buttons here so

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let's just find that those under the

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scroll rect under the content and we

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have our first level button and our

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second level button and we'll just drag

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those in so what this allows us to do is

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now in our script at any point let's

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just choose the start method here so

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right when we boot up this scene what we

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want to do is loop through all of our

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buttons so we want to go for and

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whenever you create a for statement you

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could go ahead and type it out yourself

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so far in I equals 0 we want to go as

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long as I is less than level buttons dot

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length but this is always a bit

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redundant what we'll do instead is just

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write for and then tab tab and that's

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going to automatically insert all of

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this stuff forth so we can name our

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variable we could call it J for example

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but we'll just call it I and we'll also

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change the length here to level buttons

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length and this way we quickly have a

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for loop that will go through and for

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each button in our array up here we'll

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create a variable I with the index of

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that button so we'll just keep going

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until we reach the end of our array and

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what this allows us to do is now say

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level buttons to the ith element so

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which is the first time we go through

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it's going to select the first button

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which has an index of 0 the second time

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it's going to select the second button

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which has an index of 1 and of course

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it's going to stop there for us but you

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can have an unlimited or

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at least a pretty long list of buttons

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on here and it's not going to complain

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about it and then we can go dot

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interactable and we can then disable the

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interact ability of these buttons so

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this really does through script is go to

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our button and then disables the

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interact ability here so it just toggles

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off this switch right here and of course

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we do that for both buttons right now so

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if we go and hit play we should see that

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we don't see any hover animation and

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that we cannot actually click these

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buttons what a standard button will do

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just a default one is because it uses

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the colored tint as a transition we'll

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go ahead and maybe fade out the button a

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little bit so it's clear that you cannot

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interact with it but we don't do that at

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the moment so let's instead go in and

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create a small animation just like we

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have the normal highlighted and pressed

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we also want to go and do something for

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the disabled and what we want to do with

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this animation is simply find our color

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and then drag down the Alpha quite a bit

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just to make it very very clear that

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this button is not to be interacted with

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but remember whenever we change a

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parameter on one of the animations we

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have to make sure that it goes back if

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we then re-enable it we don't want it to

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just change its alpha and if it then

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goes back to normal it will stay at that

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alpha and we of course have to input a

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keyframe here for the color as well

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where the Alpha is 255 so we'll just go

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ahead and duplicate this keyframe here

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and paste that on the highlighted as

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well and undepressed so it's only when

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it's disabled that we will get this on

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faded color and we can do this on one of

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the objects only and we don't even even

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have to do any applying of the prefab

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because they all share the same

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animation files and that's what we've

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just edited we just edited right now

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this button here that has the disabled

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highlighted normal and pressed cool so

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what we should now see is that when we

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hit play they're both faded out and

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that's awesome one thing that we of

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course do not want to happen is that

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right now both of these buttons are

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faded out

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and we want to always be able to choose

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at least one so of course we have to

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keep track of what level we're currently

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reached and in order to do this um it's

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not enough to just ah create a variable

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because a variable won't persist between

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scenes if we create the same script in

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the first scene and in the second scene

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it's not going to carry over if we mark

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it as a public static variable that is

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totally going to work and it's going to

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carry over but as soon as you close down

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the game your progress is going to be

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lost and the static variable is just

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going to go back to its default value so

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what we do instead is save our progress

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to some kind of file many advanced games

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use some kind of data format for this

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and that could be JSON or XML which are

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basically just formats for storing loads

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of data say you want to store

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playerhealth player progress levels all

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that stuff maybe even where objects are

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placed in the scene where your player is

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in the world when he locks out stuff

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like that you can store a lot of stuff

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in those formats and you can definitely

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check that out

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it's called serialization but what we do

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which is a lot easier and it's something

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that unity has provided us for this use

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case specifically is use the built-in

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player preps and this just allows us to

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store either is string a float or an

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integer and you can store multiple

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integers multiple floats multiple

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strings so you can actually use it for a

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lot of stuff really really easily so

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what we do in order to utilize this

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function is let's create a new variable

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and let's call it level reached this is

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going to be the level of the highest

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number that we have reached so in the

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beginning this is going to say 1 then

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when we beat that level we get to go to

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level 2 so we level reached will be 2

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and so on so we don't want to set this

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equal to either 1 or 2 instead we want

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to set it equal to the level that we

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have reached and therefore we go to

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player prefs and you use this whenever

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you want to get a value or

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setup value and then we do dot and in

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this case we want to get a value so we

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go get and then you can see we have both

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string in and float in an our case

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because it's a limited amount of levels

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we want to just use the integer some

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number some whole number so let's use

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get int and then we give it the name of

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the key and the key is basically just a

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string value that you used to associate

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with that number it's basically the same

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thing as a variable name so if we treat

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this integer as a variable that has a

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value and the key to get that value is

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the name this uses the exact same thing

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so our key here could be the exact same

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level reached and I think we should just

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do that for simplicity we also get to

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specify a default number so in our case

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we do comma one and that's because we

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want our default level reached to be one

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we do this so that if we have never

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played the game before and it tries to

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go here and find a saved piece of data

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called level reached and it isn't

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created yet it's just going to return

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the value one and so it's only going to

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allow us to play the first level this is

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going to happen every time a new player

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plays the game so now we can use this

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level reached in order to specify what

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level buttons we want to actually be

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interactable and we do that by saying

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that if the current value of our I here

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so if I which means the index of the

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button we are currently on is less than

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level reached well then we want to go

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ahead and make it not interactable so if

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we haven't reached that level yet if

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this current button has a level index

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that we haven't reached we want to go

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ahead and make it non interactable but

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of course our eye here starts zero and

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obviously our level reached starts at

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one so we have to just add one on to the

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eye in order to make that totally valid

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whoops I noticed a bug here that we have

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to fix before we run this and that is if

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I plus one is grew

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rather than the level that we reached

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then we want to disable it awesome so we

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can save that hidden to unity and what

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we should see now is that when we play

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the game it's not going to have any

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previously stored data and so it's just

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going to return one and that means that

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the only button that's going to be

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clickable is the first one and the

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second one should be grayed out so if we

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play now we should see exactly that

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happening and that's awesome and again

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we cannot click this but we can proceed

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to the first level so that's actually

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all we need to do for a level selector

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but of course we still have to change

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our level reach so that we can actually

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progress in the game it's not going to

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do that automatically so what we do here

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is head into our first level we find our

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game master so let's find the place in

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our code where our level ends and that's

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inside of our wave spawner so let's

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double click that and scroll down here

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to where inside of our spawn wave we

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realize that we've just spawned all of

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the waves that we wanted to have in this

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level we currently just throw out a

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debug deadlock statement saying that we

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won the level and then we disabled this

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script what we want to do instead is we

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probably still want to throw out a debug

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block and you might even display some

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cool information here like the amount of

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waves that you just went through and the

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amount of enemies you killed cash earned

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stuff like that but what we will also do

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is of course increased the level reached

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so in order to do all of this stuff I

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don't want to do it inside the wave

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spawner I want a more appropriate place

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to put this code and that is of course

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inside of our game manager this is

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responsible for ending a game and so I

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think it should also be responsible for

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winning a level so that's going to and

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create a public void and let's call this

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one something like level 1 or you could

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just put win level which I think we are

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going to put and enough in here we could

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throw stuff like a debug deadlock

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statement and I think we're just going

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to copy paste that in there so we know

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what is going on and of course we need

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now a reference to the game manager

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inside of a wave spawn in order to call

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that function

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let's go to the top here and let's

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create a public game manager and we're

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going to call it a game manager as well

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let's go down here and say game manager

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dot and then we call win level then

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inside of our win level script we threw

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out the debug deadlock we could then go

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in here and say player prefs

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dot and now we don't want to use get now

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we want to use set so we use set in and

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again we input a key which is the name

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of our value so our name is level

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reached and it's very important that you

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type this the exact same way that you

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did inside of the level selector it's

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not going to throw an error if you

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didn't so just go in here copy this

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paste it in here and you're good to go

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just make sure that that's correct

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because it's not going to complain about

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it if you make a mistake and then we

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throw a value and the value here could

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be in our case we want to transition to

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two if it's the first level and to three

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if it's the second and so this is

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something that will dynamically change

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one thing you could do is keep sort of

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an array a list of all of the different

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levels with an Associated index that you

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put in here that would be totally fine

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or you could at the top here inside the

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game manager have some variable let's

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start with a public string and this is

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going to be the name of the next level

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and we'll just default that to level two

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and we'll also have a public integer

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which is going to be the next level

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index or we could call it level to reach

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or let's say unlock and we can default

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that to two as well so this is a bit

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more fragile because you'll have to

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remember to write everything in there

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but you will have to add it to the level

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array anyways and it's just a lot easier

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so now we simply input level to unlock

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in here and then we want to actually

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change the scene

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we of course need another reference

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that to our fate script so we'll go up

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here and get again and we'll create a

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public screen or on scene fader and

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we'll call this one scene fader and now

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we can go down here and type scene fader

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f82 and the scene that we want to fade

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to is the next level awesome so that

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should actually work just fine so now we

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just need to go into our game master and

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we need to input this new information we

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need to drag the game monster or manager

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inside of the wave spawner scheme

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manager there we go so that's linked up

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we want to drag the scene fader into our

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game manager and we want to confirm that

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our next level is level 2 that's correct

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because we're currently on level 1 and

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the level 2 unlock is also to come

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that's also correct so now we can just

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save this and it should work right away

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so let's go to our level select let's

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hit play and we should now be able to go

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to the first level here and run through

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it but that's going to take some time so

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I thought we would just take a shortcut

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which means just loading up level 1 and

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finding our wave spawner and setting the

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time between wave to 0 just so it it

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will really really quickly run through

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here so let's just put in a lot of

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objects or game objects here to kill off

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the different waves as they spawn

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awesome so you can see how quickly that

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win and you also notice the bug but it

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transitioned to the second level here so

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let's focus on that and we'll fix the

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bug in a second so it turns second

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decision to the second level and now we

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can go and choose our level select again

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and we can just hit don't save on that

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we don't need to do that hit play and

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you can see that they are both unlocked

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so that's awesome and it's going to keep

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doing that if we create say if we just

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very quickly go in here and create

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another button so just duplicate level

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button too and we change the text here

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to 3 and we go into a level selector and

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add it to the array so we'll go 3 there

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add it in there and

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play you should see that that's not

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unlocked and indeed it is not so you can

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see how easy it is now to add new levels

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to this system so now let's just focus

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on our bug and we'll call that a day so

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let's go into our first level here and

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basically what happened is it marked on

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the level here as completed before we

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had actually destroyed all the enemies

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and it even went on to spawn a wave

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before a previous wave was completed and

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the reason why is because of the way

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that we are currently checking if a way

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wave is done and we do that by if we go

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into the wave spawning here each time we

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spawn an enemy we increase enemies alive

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by one and then when we kill an enemy if

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we find our enemies script so we'll go

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and double click on the enemy here every

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time we die we decrease enemies alive

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and if enemies alive reaches zero it's

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going to go ahead and spawn the next

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wave but the problem with this the

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problem with this is that we of course

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instantiate the enemies with a bit of

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delay in between them so we don't just

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go ahead and spawn all of the enemies at

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the same time you can see here that we

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wait the wave rate so one divided by the

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wait rate and therefore there's a bit of

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delay between each enemies spawn so if

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an enemy spawns and we destroy it before

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the next one

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the amount of enemies alive is going to

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be zero in the middle of the REA wave

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and if we're unlucky it's going to start

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the next one or transition to the new

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level so in order to fix this instead of

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increasing enemies alive when we are

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spawning enemies we're just going to set

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enemies alive equal to wave dot count

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before we actually start spawning so

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this way we'll just set the enemies

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alive to the amount of enemies that are

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going to be spawned and yeah just use

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that it's much simpler

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and it should work much better so if

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we're now go in here and set out time

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between wave to something like one let's

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just decrease it a little bit and we'll

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very quickly just run through this so

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let's create a bunch of turrets to take

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care of our enemies and we'll create

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some of higher level as well let's use

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the laser beam here you can see that the

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previous wave does not start until

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you've actually completed the or the

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next wave doesn't start until you've

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completed the previous one and once we

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get through the last wave it's going to

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transition so now that bug should be

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gone awesome so you will notice a slight

00:20:37,220 --> 00:20:41,510
disadvantage when it comes to just

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duplicating levels like this and that is

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all of the changes that we've made to

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our game master in here have not updated

00:20:46,130 --> 00:20:51,380
in level two you still have to set up

00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:53,809
the scene fader and game manager in

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level two what we can do since we don't

00:20:53,809 --> 00:20:57,650
have anything special going on in level

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two is just delete that and then

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reduplicate the level but of course

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that's not super awesome if you have a

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lot of stuff going on that is different

00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:09,350
between the two levels what I would then

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recommend is you can of course go ahead

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and make all of these different objects

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into prefabs that you just make sure to

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update whenever you change them and you

00:21:16,580 --> 00:21:22,070
can get really far using that method but

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if you are really serious about this and

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want to create a lot of different levels

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what I would recommend is you utilize

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the fact that unity has now created a

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way of loading different scenes in you

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create one scene for all of the stuff

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that is shared between all the scenes

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like the game master and the scene fader

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the node UI stuff like that that doesn't

00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:46,370
necessarily need to be interlinked with

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the actual layout of the level and then

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you have another scene which is odd

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which is different for each level which

00:21:50,750 --> 00:21:55,130
is the actual layout of the scene so

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that's something that you might take

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into consideration if you want me to

00:21:56,840 --> 00:22:01,070
show kind of how that's done of course

00:21:59,030 --> 00:22:04,760
let me know I think next up is probably

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some screen that will display in order

00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:08,480
to show how you did in the level I think

00:22:07,130 --> 00:22:10,820
that's pretty important instead of just

00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:12,530
going directly to the next one but that

00:22:10,820 --> 00:22:13,290
was pretty much all I wanted to show you

00:22:12,530 --> 00:22:15,420
in this

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video and I will see you in the next one

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