Game is skipping from main menu into playable level without the 'start' button being pressed.

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1

I’ve been having some problems getting the name display to work, turns out I just needed some curly braces in there.
However now when I load my main menu the scene is skipping straight into my main level scene without the ‘start’ button being pressed. The scene loads for a couple of seconds then skips. This aspect of the scene was working perfectly until I input the new code, so I have a feeling I’ve put the new script in the wrong place.

if (GUI.Button (new Rect(Screen.width/2-buttonWidth/2,
				 buttonyPosition,buttonWidth,buttonHeight), "Start"))
	{
	GameObject gameData=GameObject.Find("GameData");
	if (gameData!=null)
		{
			GameDataScript gameDataScript=gameData.GetComponent<GameDataScript>();
			gameDataScript.playerName=nameText;
		}
	}
	{
		//load the level
		StartCoroutine(PlayButtonClick());
		Application.LoadLevel("PhysicsLab");
	}

The new code causing the problem is the part about GameObjects.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

2

Of course it does. Align your brackets and you will see that your bottom most code block is just outside your if statement:

if (GUI.Button (new Rect(Screen.width/2-buttonWidth/2,
       buttonyPosition,buttonWidth,buttonHeight), "Start"))
{
    GameObject gameData=GameObject.Find("GameData");
    if (gameData!=null)
    {
        GameDataScript gameDataScript=gameData.GetComponent<GameDataScript>();
        gameDataScript.playerName=nameText;
    }
}
// THIS IS NOT WITHIN THE BUTTON IF BLOCK
{
   //load the level
   StartCoroutine(PlayButtonClick());
   Application.LoadLevel("PhysicsLab");
}

I can’t tell how you want / need this code fraction to be, but it’s quite obvious that’s your problem. Probably you just want the Loadlevel piece just inside the if block.