1 Scene INFINITE Levels by Spawning Levels from ScriptableObject Data at Runtime | Unity Tutorial

Learn how I used ScriptableObjects to spawn tiles and prefabs into my single game scene to support INFINITE numbers of levels! Using a simple editor tool and the Tilemap, I crafted the levels in the editor, saved them to a ScriptableObject to ensure visual consistency across the levels and keeping a small game footprint.

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Chapters:
00:00 Topic Introduction
01:17 How Scene Data is Saved
01:40 Demo / How it works
02:45 Main Menu / Passing Data Between Main Menu & Game Scene
03:29 How to Spawn the Objects
06:09 Procedural Animate In
07:45 Start the Game & Reset Ball on Out of Bounds
10:25 Recap, Closing Thoughts, & Support LlamAcademy

[captainnoyaux]

I did the same for my solitaire levels and used LevelSO too, naming right 🤣.
Super interesting usage, thanks for sharing !

[mehmedcavas]

you just have to be carefully not have references to the scene. let say there are 1000 levels and every level have its own prefab and u drag them to a field on the So. and if the so is referenced in the scene, then all the prefabs will be loaded into the ram and this can cause some issues. I dont have any refence to the SOs and load them by name (index)

[geri]

Great stuff :)
It just came to mind, did you show how you solved the strange collision "glitches" where the ball collides with perfectly aligned cube colliders?

[MXMLLN]

So all the Levels in the Holes Menu had their respective SO manually dragged into the main Level Data SO? They're not dynamically populated?

[MXMLLN]

Did you invent this technique? I have been implementing it for my next generation Brick Breaker mobile game and haven't been able to find a single other example like this.
What can I search for to find other examples? I would have assumed that many 2d puzzle games would use this paradigm, especially Match 3.