gamingxrelic/elephantintheroom

1. Project shape

- This is a Unity game project built around authored scenes, prefabs, animations, audio, and C# MonoBehaviours.

- The repo is content-heavy and runtime-light: most behavior is driven by scene objects and reusable components under Assets/Scripts.

2. Primary runtime scenes

- Assets/Scenes/MainMenu.unity is the entry point for menu flow.

- Assets/Scenes/Level01.unity and Assets/Scenes/Level02.unity are the main gameplay spaces.

- Assets/Scenes/SampleScene.unity appears to be a Unity default/auxiliary scene rather than core game content.

3. Core gameplay layer

- The gameplay logic lives in Assets/Scripts, with components such as PlayerController, GoToClickPoint, InteractionObject, PickableObject, and a set of object-specific interaction scripts (SinkInteraction, ToasterInteraction, ShowerInteraction, StoveInteraction, ToiletInteraction, TVTableInteraction).

- This suggests a component-based interaction model: generic player/object behavior plus specialized scripts per interactable prop.

4. Player and movement flow

- Player.prefab is the central player entity.

- PlayerInputActions.cs and Assets/ElephantInTheRoom.inputactions indicate Unity’s Input System is the input boundary.

- Movement and navigation are likely split between direct player control and click-to-move/targeted movement via GoToClickPoint, with pathfinding support from the imported A* package.

5. Interaction and world-object boundary

- Interactable world objects are grouped under Assets/Objects, with separate prefab families for shared items and level-specific props.

- InteractionObject and PickableObject provide the common contract for objects that can be used or carried, while the per-object scripts implement the actual effect.

- JukeboxInteraction.cs sits at the root Assets/, suggesting a special-case interaction that is not part of the generic object set.

6. Level-specific content organization

- Assets/Objects/Level01 contains bathroom/household props such as sink, shower, toaster, stove, toothbrush, TV, and music discs.

- Assets/Objects/Level02 contains a smaller separate set (bench, fountain, stand), implying distinct gameplay spaces with different interactive goals.

- Shared prefabs (Assets/Objects/Shared) and shared audio (Assets/Audio/Shared) provide cross-level building blocks.

7. UI, checklist, and pause flow

- UI behavior is handled by scripts such as ChecklistHandler, ChecklistAnim, PauseMenuLogic, MainMenuLogic, SuitcasePauseLogic, and VolumeSettings.

- The presence of checklist and suitcase-specific animation assets suggests the game uses UI as a gameplay/progression surface, not just menus.

- NextLevelDoorInteraction indicates level completion is tied to a world object rather than an abstract state screen.

8. Animation subsystem

- Animations are organized by domain: player, sheep, appliances, UI, and level props.

- Animator controllers exist for the player, sheep, sink, toaster, and pause UI, showing that many interactions are represented as state machines rather than scripted one-off effects.

- Scripts such as WalkBehindWallLogic, YSortController, and SortOrderColliderLogic support 2D/2.5D visual layering and occlusion behavior.

9. Audio subsystem

- Audio is split into Level01, Level02, and Shared folders, plus a GameAudio.mixer.

- This indicates a clear separation between ambience/music beds and event-driven sound effects triggered by interactions like sinks, doors, footsteps, and toasters.

- Audio is likely controlled from the same interaction scripts that drive animations and state changes.

10. Pathfinding / AI dependency boundary

- The repo includes the full **A* Pathfinding Project** under Assets/AstarPathfindingProject.

- That package contributes graph generation, AI movement, navmesh utilities, modifiers, and example scenes; it is architecturally separate from the game’s own scripts.

- In this project, it likely supports click-to-move or autonomous movement behaviors rather than being the main gameplay system.

11. Content and asset pipeline

- The project uses Unity-native asset types throughout: prefabs, Animator Controllers, animation clips, audio clips, materials, shaders, and TextMesh Pro resources.

- ProjectSettings and Packages show a standard Unity package-managed setup, with the Input System and TextMesh Pro as notable runtime dependencies.

12. What to diagram

- The main boxes to draw are: Scenes, Player/Input, Interaction Scripts, World Prefabs, UI/Progression, Animation/Audio, and Pathfinding package.

- The key data flow is: input → player/navigation → interaction detection → object-specific state change → animation/audio/UI update → level progression.