Chapter 9
The Game GUI
Over the past several chapters, we’ve put together a fairly complete bowling game with 3D graphics, physics, sound, player controls, and automatic camera movement. The game has almost every category of feature expected in a 3D game except for one: a graphical user interface (GUI). In particular, the bowling game should have a scoreboard, and games usually have a menu that shows up at the beginning of the game and when the game is paused.
Tip I have had an iOS game rejected by Apple for not having a pause menu, so I do recommend including one, if only for that reason.
In this chapter, we’ll implement both a scoreboard and start/pause menu with Unity’s built-in GUI system, known as UnityGUI (you can tell how long ...
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