Introduction to Game Development (E19: arrays and lists)

In this episode we look at how arrays and lists can be used to store collections of variables.

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[toffeethedev]

I swear I will never fully grasp a concept of something until Sebastian makes a video about it.
Bless you man

[SebastianLague]

Outline for the next few episodes of this series is:
Loops
Coroutines
Basics of trigonometry
Small stealth game project (~4 episodes)

Following that I still want to cover interfaces, method overloading and overriding, and generic classes and methods.

[Steven_Something]

A break down like this would have helped me out when I first started. This will for sure help someone else down the road. Thanks for the upload.

[ULTRAVCATASTROPHE]

I love the subtle Harry Potter references you throw in, all the names in the possibleNames array were members of the Gryffindor Qudditch team!

[Falesam]

Oh man! Thanks so much. I was really needing that... the array explanation and the random indexation method. You are a great teacher. All the best!

[robsim]

Woo Hoo! New Unity video! Idea for you: Kinda like your Cavern generation videos, perhaps you could tackle how to generate a dungeon with (roughly) rectangular rooms. Keep up the awesomeness!

[RoddyDev]

arrays saved my life on game development.
Before i learned arrays, i always used a bunch of variables like "name1", "name2", etc.

[starboy_]

Anyone noticed his string names were Gryffindor Qudidtch Team.

[rubixio]

love your work man looking forward to donating so how can I do that ?.

[VividMind-of]

thanks for the post, That helped in my Game Design class

[ayyildiz-ccc]

Thank you for the valuable information that you share.

[phoenixorder]

Is it possible to make an array of game objects?

[nemsis]

I shed a manly tear when I found out that I didn't have to use arrays. They crush me.

[sethgrey]

Finally, a new video, thank you, man. Keep goin' )

[spence]

I keep getting Udemy Ads on these videos. Udemy got NOTHING on you!

[jantran]

Sebastian Lague how long have you programmed?, fundamental to solve problem?, right now im feeling like a copy and paste programmer and can solve small task problem, not bigger complex

[saifors]

I've been programming for a while now and had no idea arrays could have dimensions, and I wish I did because there are things where looking back, it could have helped quite a bit. Never anything wrong with going back to basics I guess.

[Taaaamas]

Me at the start of the video: "Ah arrays, this should be a breeze because i know these already :)"
Me at the end of the video:

[andreasandersson]

Hello, nice vid!
Exactly how do you create a list that contains a bunch of arrays? I´ve tried a whole lot of different approaches but has not managed to do that. I have tried :
public List<int[]> SomeDifferentArrays;
& also :
public List<int[]> SomeDifferentArrays= new List<int[]>();


But they just dissapear both from inspector and the ability to call for them through script. If I remove the square brackets so it becomes regular int-list they simply pop up in inspector and through script again. I do not understand the logic here?


I have also included [Serializable]..


This is a subject I have searched answer to for a long time, so can you help me?
Thanks!

[stormcaster]

im listening to this while i'm drunk dude just so you know