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Hello everyone :slight_smile:
Really happy to be part of this community.
Having good experience with programming but first time trying game design.
I will read deeply on the forum and on tutorials tomorrow but i just wanted to create this in case someone has some links for exactly the things i want.

I want to create an application that will show an image to the user. The user has to understand the hints on the image and input the correct code to get to the next image. Something like a riddle game but it will be only static images. The animation of the button to give the answer is something that i will work on later stage.

How i can create something like a locked feature that unlocks and continue with the correct password?

Last but not least. If i want to add a leaderboard to my app and a connect with facebook button. Is this something that can easily be created or its better to not look at these features at the beginning ?

Thanks in advance!

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After you get the basics of the Unity engine, you’ll probably want to focus on UI tutorials. Showing images, responding to button clicks, using a text input field, should all be covered in various tutorials already.

Leaderboards are usually implemented with the API for whatever specific marketplace platform you plan on distributing using. So how to do it depends on where you are distributing the game. But both leaderboards and 3rd party login are somewhat advanced topics compared to the rest of what you described. I’d come back to them after you have made some progress on the game.

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Thanks a lot Joe for your reply. Sure i will start my reading tomorrow on everything. About the leaderboard its something i want to have in game so i can somehow give “gifts” to the top players so they are to be used by me. Maybe i am losing something with the API and specific marketplace you said but its ok it’s something i will see on a later date :slight_smile:

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On the leaderboard, just as an example here is an old thread on implementing a leaderboard if you are distributing the game on Steam:
https://discussions.unity.com/t/650875

There will be different specific steps for implementing an android leaderboard, or an Apple leaderboard for those marketplaces. If you want to host your own server to implement your own leaderboard using your own database, you could do that as well, but the steps for that would yet again be totally different. :slight_smile: