Start game within application

Unity Engine
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Hello everybody,

I’m having this problem and I will try to explain this as clearly as I can.

I’ve been asked to create an application within Unity, that can start individual games. No big deal there you think, well the thing is, the application should not be minimalized when starting the new game. So I can not just call game.exe, because that will minimalize the screen and give a flickering etc.

What I really need is some sort of, unitypackage that can contain scripts. So when a game is build within unity, it can call the game.unitypackage in runtime and play the game. But, as far as I can tell there’s no way to include scripts into the unity packages…

So, does anyone know a way to solve my problem? Is there a way that a unity project (game) can be called from a package, including the scripts? Or maybe play a build of a game within my application, maybe as in a website, the game within a page?

I hope I was pretty clear,
maybe you guys can help me with this, or have other ideas on this?

Thanks in advance

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Maybe that helps:

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I’ve tried that, in indeed it loads the level etc. But the problem is that the scripts do not seem to go with it?

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Platform?

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Windows platform. Might it be the case that scripts don’t get implemented into the assetbundles/streamedbundles because they don’t get compiled? Or something?

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AssetBundles can’t contain new scripts. They can contain objects that have scripts on them if that script is already in the main executable that you’re loading it from, but you can’t put new scripts into AssetBundles that aren’t in the original game. If you want new scripts, Unity reccomends attaching the scripts as text objects instead of MonoBehaviors in your AssetBundle, and then have code in your main executable that uses Reflection to load that text and compile it and add it to the object that needs it, like this:

http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Manual/scriptsinassetbundles.html

I think this would be a huge pain though if your AssetBundle has a ton of new scripts in it, like having the whole game like you’re suggesting.

Are you sure you can’t just call the executable from your launcher? There are a few ways that games do it… you can minimize and then delay for a second before launching the executable so you don’t see a flicker, or call the executable with a parameter to have it delay starting for a second and have the launcher actually quit so it’s not running at all. I think something like that would be much easier than trying to load a game within a game.

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Thanks for the reply makeshiftwings.

Do you have an example/tutorial of what you are describing?
The biggest issue is that switching between executables shouldn’t show the desktop etc. and maybe show a loading screen.
It’s a project for a museum, and they ofcourse do not want the kids to be able to get to the desktop. It’s all touchscreen based so they can press ctrl+alt_del or anything to get to the desktop, but if it minimizes or something like that they have enough time to press the desktop. (you’ll be amazed how fast kids find something to screw around with)

The system design in my head has the following…
Framework.exe/build which calls

RFIDscan.exe/build
Idlescreen.exe/build
Register/Login.exe/build
GameLauncher.exe/build which launches several games

game1.exe/build
game2.exe/build
etc.

So you think real builds are the solution?