Creating a scene

Every level or distinct area you create within Unity will be an individual scene. So, the start screen will be a scene, the town will be a scene, the map will be a scene, and so on.

We will have the following scenes in our game:

  • Start Screen
  • Town
  • Shop
  • Overworld
  • Battle Scene

When you start a new project in Unity, you will be given a blank scene that contains only a camera, as shown in the Hierarchy in the following screenshot:

Creating a scene

Tip

The Hierarchy displays a list of all the objects within a scene.

The initial scene will be unsaved, as you can see by the word Untitled in the area above the toolbar preceding the name of the project:

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