1.) I was immediately amused because I'd had an intern candidate telling me about his Game Conference challenges using Unity2d and he'd discussed a "cookbook" game with a demon hooking to a JSON data source. The Scavengers setup sure seems like the base application his team likely modified for their competition. Wish I had played around with it before the interview. I don't think he was expecting an interviewer who'd touched Unity (recently). I asked a number of questions related to prefabs and how they compared to a traditional OOP structure and whether coroutines were threading (they're not, and there are a few tutorial videos out there on the topic of yielding to the main thread versus spawning new threads in C#).
2.) Getting back to the Pareto Principle, during the first real lesson after the introduction, I did something that eliminated my main camera. So when I went to watch my little adventurer bounce up and down like he was wanking to pass the time, I couldn't find him. Or his two wanking monster buddies. I had no problems putting the camera back, but the default settings weren't the same. I eventually had to boot up a new project and check the defaults. Unity was resetting the Transform.z to 0 instead of -10 and the depth to 0, instead of -1. I updated the values and there they were. Like looking for a needle in a haystack. Here's a default Main Camera, should I ever need to get my mitts on it again. It took quite a while of dicking around with settings and looking online before I gave up and did the new project. Seriously - I'm still trying to make it work in my head - I assume because my characters were at 0 and my camera was at 0, that I was in some sort of Flatworld universe where I couldn't see them.
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