Error CS1061

Unity Engine
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using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class LivesManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    public GameObject player;
    public GameObject enemy;

    public int P1Life;
    public int P2Life;
  
    public GameObject Player1Wins;
    public GameObject Player2Wins;

    public GameObject Player1Text;
    public GameObject Player2Text;

    //This Code doesn't seemed to be acknowledged by Visual Studio
    public static int ScoreValue = 0;
    Text score;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        score = GetComponent<Text>();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if(P1Life <= 0)
        {
            player.SetActive(false);
            Player2Wins.SetActive(true);
        }

        if (P2Life <= 0)
        {
            enemy.SetActive(false);
            Player1Wins.SetActive(true);
        }
    }

    public void HurtP1()
    {
      P1Life -= 1;
        Player2Text.ScoreValue += 10;
    }

    public void HurtP2()
    {
        P2Life -= 1;
        Player1Text.ScoreValue += 10;
    }
}

Hi There I am working on a Multiplayer Score System and with my script it’s complaining about Error CS1061 complaining that I don’t have the right Method?

Here is the message I got from it
Assets\Scripts\LivesManager.cs(50,21): error CS1061: ‘GameObject’ does not contain a definition for ‘ScoreValue’ and no accessible extension method ‘ScoreValue’ accepting a first argument of type ‘GameObject’ could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

What am I doing wrong here?

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The error pretty much says what the issue is. There is no property/variable that exists within a plain old gameobject called ScoreValue. What is score value? A variable inside a script? A script itself? Unity doesn’t know, because it’s just a plain old gameobject.

In either case, you need to get the component you’re trying to access the method/variables from using GetComponent<>().

The variable names imply they’re UI elements. Should you be storing them as Text component and changing the text on the UI element instead?

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