Documentation 12 - Put scenes together and set up the local notifications
When I started to put everything together, I found a couple of features still missing. I found it so confusing to think about what needed to be further developed and modified, so I started to connect scenes to keep the progress moving forward.
To connect the scenes, I drew storyboards for each scene to have a clear idea of what was going on and where the scene was going.
I also created a welcome back scene and main menu that players can access whenever they have finished the first scene and back to the game when the new one is ready. Since the game is pseudo-real-time, I make the main menu chapter button available by satisfying the following conditions:
After a particular time: I access the system time that chapters will unlock by time to create the pseudo-real-time.
After finishing the previous chapter: To make sure players are not going back to the last chapter and messing up the stats, I disabled the button of the chapters after finishing it, and the next chapter will be available after players complete the previous chapters.
Have not played: Players can access a chapter once, and the button will be disabled after finishing the chapter by changing the player preference of each chapter’s value.
I also updated the stats in the last scene of each chapter so that the data in the scene will be successfully passed through.
The hello scene is shown when the player first enters the game and goes to chapter one. Once players finish chapter one and enter the main menu for the first time, the system will set a notification for the following chapters based on time, and the welcome page is shown when players return to the game. They will go to the main menu by the welcome scene.
The local notification was a challenge to me. I tried many tutorials and even plugins in Unity. However, it was hard to get it right. I’m going to send notifications of new chapters based on time. I have already successfully accessed system time. The problem is how can I send messages based on time? I used a code online and embedded it into my project. The notification was working, but the problem is it will duplicate when the player re-enters the main menu. I’m still working on it, and I think I know the problem is that somewhere I didn't turn off the code to send notifications after entering the main menu.