Invoke a method with a new scene.

Hello all,
im brand new to unity & C# coding. I have a game currently with 3 scenes. A start menu and then a core game scene(where the game is actually being played), then a victory scene. I'm looking for any advice but also links to references( i cant seem to word it properly to find it)

My game is a guessing game where at the start of the core game i have a method i want to be invoked to generate random numbers then displayed in a text box when the scene is loaded in. I'd appreciate references to these as well as any advice you could give.

Code (CSharp):

1.  public void StartGame()
2.     {
3.            
4.         initialStartnumber = Random.Range(1, 1000);
5.         initialLowerBound = 1; initialUpperBound = 1000;
6.         Debug.Log("Start Game Was Invoked");
7.     }

 

All of this stuff will be covered by any basic tutorial on making a simple game in Unity.

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Tutorials and example code are great, but keep this in mind to maximize your success and minimize your frustration:

How to do tutorials properly, two (2) simple steps to success:

Step 1. Follow the tutorial and do every single step of the tutorial 100% precisely the way it is shown. Even the slightest deviation (even a single character!) generally ends in disaster. That's how software engineering works. Every step must be taken, every single letter must be spelled, capitalized, punctuated and spaced (or not spaced) properly, literally NOTHING can be omitted or skipped.

Fortunately this is the easiest part to get right: Be a robot. Don't make any mistakes.
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If you get any errors, learn how to read the error code and fix your error. Google is your friend here. Do NOT continue until you fix your error. Your error will probably be somewhere near the parenthesis numbers (line and character position) in the file. It is almost CERTAINLY your typo causing the error, so look again and fix it.

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Step 2 is the part everybody seems to miss. Without Step 2 you are simply a code-typing monkey and outside of the specific tutorial you did, you will be completely lost. If you want to learn, you MUST do Step 2.

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Here are some great content creators to get you started:

Imphenzia / imphenzia - super-basic Unity tutorial:

Jason Weimann:

Brackeys super-basic Unity Tutorial series:

Sebastian Lague Intro to Game Development with Unity and C#:

Imphenzia: How Did I Learn To Make Games:

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