Ouya Game Object Problems

Marscaleb

I followed the guide posted by tgraupmann a while back on how to run my Unity game on my Ouya.  Ever since then I've given little thought to it.

But recently I've been expanding my game, and it now has multiple levels.

First of all, after I had been working on this for a while, it dawned on me that I had NOT been adding that "Ouya game object" into each of my levels.  Despite this, the game ran fine.  Each level had no problem.

This leads me to wonder what that game object was even doing.  I remember being told that I had to put one in my scene, but yet I have it in only one scene, and I have no problems.  It's not even my first scene, in fact, it's the very last scene that can be loaded in my game's progression.

But this isn't just a mere curiosity regarding what that object does.  I've also noticed a problem.

Each time I load that one level, I get another Ouya Game Object.  I never noticed it until I had a title scene that has almost no objects.  But yet if I play to that level, each time it loads (including when I die) I collect another Ouya Game Object.

And I think it may be overloading my memory. (At least something is, and that is a candidate.)

Please advise.

tgraupmann

I recommend that you add an initial scene that all it does is it loads your splash screen or main scene. The initial scene just has an OuyaGameObject in it and only loads once at the beginning. If you throw an OUYA game object in your main menu scene you could get duplicates if you navigate to that scene more than once.

DemonStudios

To prevent other platforms from having a redundant object in the scene (or having to remember to add/remove it when switching), you can create the OuyaGameObject programmatically like so:

  // Create the OuyaGameObject (put this block inside an 'isRunningOnOuya' check)

  GameObject container = new GameObject();

  container.isStatic = true;

  container.name = "OuyaGameObject";

  ouyaGameObject = container.AddComponent(typeof(OuyaGameObject)) as OuyaGameObject;

  ouyaGameObject.DEVELOPER_ID = DEVELOPER_ID;