The retro “Gameover” text in Unity

After putting up the score and player lives image on both top-end corners, it is the right time to implement the “Game Over” title.

The look shall come with just a few steps if the canvas is already in place. In case, you have not done so, please revert back to the last article here.

• First, please put a text element and change the text to “Game Over”.

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• Second, choose the font of your choice. (Please use the asset store in case you are not having many options to choose from.)
• Third, select the “Overflow” option in the horizontal and vertical overflow dropdowns as these would allow the title to get bigger while changing the font size.

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This shall put up the text element as wanted.

However, the task is to have it displayed when the player dies. Let us implement it in code.

• First, declare a serialized field variable in the UI manager script.

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• Drag the text element to the field.

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• Disable the text element in the inspector and in the start( ) method, utilize the setActive( ) to disable it when the game starts.
• Then, the method which handles the lives update, go ahead and use the same method to enable it when the player dies.

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• Below is the result. But something is missing, right?

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• Let us make a coroutine that enables-disables the element at a regulated interval of 0.5 seconds.

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• The final result is here :)

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Thank you very much