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Game Development How to Make a Video Game Score, Enemies, and Game State Add a Start and End

Posted by postolache george
postolache george
296 Points

Object reference not set to an instance of an object GameState.StartGame () (at Assets/Scripts/G

why appear this error, i follow you and i don't know

1 Answer

Samuel Savaria
Samuel Savaria
4,809 Points
Samuel Savaria
Samuel Savaria
4,809 Points

If StartGame isn't a static method and you are calling it from outside the GameState script, you need an object reference.

Simply create a new serialized field of type GameState. Then, in the inspector, drag the GameState script to the serialized field.

[SerializeField] GameState gameState;