I’ve found populating a list with similar, but dynamically changing elements in unity is a relatively frequent challenge. Especially in mobile game development. I did a few idle/incremental games and they have many of these kinds of menus for upgrading player stats or even the premium/shop menus. For example, you want a list of items the player can buy. There will be 10+ items in a list, and each of those items does something slightly else.

Do you know, that we can double-fire the event of a simple Unit Button on Mobile? Yes, you can click the button with 2 fingers and the onCall callback will be called 2 times. This caused some serious issues with my first game. Based on how you implement the callback logic on the button you might encounter similar bugs. I’ve found this workaround. Inherit your own “mobile safe” Button class and start using that.

Everything is indeed better when animated. Especially the menus. I bet you feel the same when you create the first few versions of your passion project and it just feels cold. Something is missing. Maybe it’s the missing menu animations! This is why started to use this trick across all my projects. It is perfect enough for some basic menu animations. The animation itself is done with a free tool called LeanTween which is awesome.

I want to show you a neat little trick, that utilizes the slick extension methods of C#! What If I tell you, that you can remove all of the child GameObjects of any Unity transform object with only one line of code? That would be awesome right? And let me tell you it’s not an old-school method call. To add extension methods to C# (extend the methods of an existing closed class) you have to create a public static class.