Unloading a Game

For the last week, I've been working on unloading the video game if someone tries to exit the game back to the main screen.  To do so, I had to first understand the template of how Screens are created in the menu setup so that I could make an in-game pause menu and understand how each method works off of the library template we use called XUI.  Understanding their template which makes the game very cool, I was able to understand how to create options that would exit the game.  While exiting the game, it calls an unloading script before placing the main screen placeholder.  The unloading script is setup extremely simple so that any one of our game developers can easily call methods as we find new bugs while unloading the game.

I unloaded all of the main details of the game like the character from the level and the sound effects.  The hardest thing with this is that the team never implemented unloading methods for drawing images or stopping the sounds since their main goal was to just get the drawings and player charactermatics loaded into the game.  This taught an important lesson to our team in which we should all implement unloading techniques as we're implementing loading techniques so that we don't have to go back and relearn the code in implementations we create which would save a lot of time.