Check Sudoku - Unity Tutorial - 2. Setup

Unity

Since I haven't used Unity for a few years I installed Unity Hub and the latest version of Unity (2022.1.20f1) from the official site. In oder to record animation GIFs I also installed LICEcap.

Font location

Adding the first"Text - TextMeshPro" element to the UI show the prompt for importing essential and additional resources (e.g. fonts). We import both:


Next, we move the fonts that we plan to use (e.g. "Roboto-Bold.ttf") to the new "Fonts" folder:

Script location

By default all Unity C# scripts (e.g. for "GameManager" game object) are created directly under "Assets". We move them to the new "Scripts" folder:

Audio files location

We put audio files (e.g. background music) into the new "Audio" folder:

GitHub

We save the project locally. To prevent losing it in case of computer failure, we also store it in a private repository at gihub.com using e.g. GitHub Desktop.

Next steps

The next step will be creating the skeleton of our app.

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