Manager System

I designed and built a singleton managing system for our project. The system hierarchy has a Game Manager (this is the singleton manager) at the top with sub managers attached to it. The system currently contains the following:

• State Manager
• Reference Manager
• Object Pooler
• Dialogue Manager

State Manager

Handles the game state logic, example; pausing the game triggers an event that signals to connected objects on how to behave. In this case, a connected spawner will stop/start coroutine depending on state. This system allows for further extensions e.g., a game state that slows the time and game objects that should/shouldn’t react to it.

Reference Manager Code

This manager acts as a collective point of references that can be accessed by other game objects if they need it. The reference manager holds the player as an accessible variable but also connected sub-reference handlers, example; Camera Reference Handler.

Object Pooler

Also attached to the game manager, this game object acts as a manager for objects that will be spawned in mass/reused. I made a class for pools that contains; tag, prefabs, and size. The data inside the pool class is then converted into items and used in a dictionary

Background NPCs

This system is built upon by utilizing Unity’s navmesh and navmesh agents. I created some NPC prefabs and connected them to my object pooler that was then spawned in by my spawner through coroutines that also took into account the players current position and existing navmesh as to not spawn prefabs out of context.

Dialogue System

Made a visual novel style dialogue system. The system uses a custom made dialogue data struct that contains the words spoken as well as who spoke them. (need imgs and video)