Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 3D Beginner's Guide

Setting up the StateManager controller

Now, look at line 6 of the StateManager class in the following screenshot. We have a big problem right off the bat:

The activeState variable needs to be able to store all of the State types. Right now it can only store a reference to a BeginState type of object. This looks like a huge problem! What about the classes PlayState, WonState, and LostState? What if we had 50 different States that needed to be referenced in activeState?

The following diagram is our dilemma:

Studying an example of inheritance

Let's look ...