Managing and Displaying Scores in Verse

By completing this step in the Time Trial: Pizza Pursuit tutorial, you’ll learn how to manage the score when a player picks up items and delivers them, and to update the UI to display scores. To learn more about creating an in-game UI in Verse, see Creating an In-Game UI.

The score manager will track and display:

• Total Points: Represents the overall points the player has scored in-game.
• Pending Points: Represents the points the player has accumulated for the current set of pickups.
• Pickup Level: Represents the current pickup level.

Creating the UI

Follow these steps to create the UI for the score manager in Verse:

1. Create a new empty Verse file and name it score_manager.verse.
2. Create a new class named score_manager, and add the following fields to the class: