Unity C# Intermediate Tutorial - Super Simple Singleton Pattern

A short tutorial on a simple implementation of a Singleton pattern or Static classes in Unity. Aimed at intermediate Unity users. Singletons help us centralize and declutter our Unity classes. Making commonly used functions easily accessible from anywhere in our games project.

Written & Produced by Trent Naylor

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[NaciDilekli]

I just went through a bunch of tutorials for a simpleton implementation. Yours is the one that worked for me, even though it was made 9 years ago. Thanks!

[cfl]

Simplest explanation of singletons I have found so far. Thank you sir!

[nikitatikhomirov]

All the time I have problems with inhertitance and structure. You are my saviour now.

[sametoruc]

This is really simple way to use singleton pattern. Good job

[havinalmassi]

Thank you very much for this! Very simple indeed.

[halvedbagel]

thank you brother. very useful and clear.

[turbulencegames]

Thanks! Using this for a sound manager.

[elizaknight]

Amazing, I will use this to manager sounds, thanks so much :)

[jamesh]

Awesome Tutorial. Very well explained and executed.

[sachinjagotra]

I don't usually trust people who say G.U.I as Gu-ei but i will trust you. :)

[nibernator]

Is there a reason why you didn't use the if (instance == null) { ...} else { Destroy(gameObject); ?

[NevaranUniverse]

Huh, so i was using singletons for a while now, i just didnt knew they were called that haha...

[BradenLehman]

Awesome this is exactly what I needed to know! Thanks for making this

[SharpData]

Nice, but it would be better to access the singleton though a property.

[TheSphynxoid]

Which is better and faster and safer Singleton Or inhertitance (Make the Other classes inherit for the main one And Putting Some Variables Protected isnt this better)

[morphman]

I've been trying to figure out what a singleton is for a while now, since it's mentioned a LOT in the #Unity3D chatroom. Is it just the self-instantiation of a manager script? What is the advantage of that, compared to single-scene game management (where you don't have the problem with lost variables due to the scene never changing)?

[marcheever]

you are not preventing instantiation from the singleton, which makes this not a real singleton.

[ahmedelakrab]

From the Channel name i thought you were Indian.