Please help, Object reference not set to an instance of an object

[Reymon_Omar_Garcia_A]

I been stuck on this part for a while. When I have to run the project to see if it works, after I set a return to game object Unity keeps giving me this error: NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
AdventureGame.Start () (at Assets/AdventureGame.cs:17)

/  
   [SerializeField] Text textComponent;
   [SerializeField] State startingState;

    State state; 

    // Use this for initialization
    void Start () {

        state = startingState;
        textComponent.text = state.GetStateStory();

    }  

/  
    [TextArea (10,14)] [SerializeField] string storyText;

    public string GetStateStory()

    {
        return storyText; 

    }  

I been trying all I could, even rewriting specific parts to see if maybe there was a misstype I dint notice, but to no avail.

[Nina]

Hi,

NullReferenceException means that a reference (“link”) to an instance is missing. If you exposed a field in the Inspector, make sure that it’s not empty.

[Reymon_Omar_Garcia_A]

Thanks very much, I dint catch what I was missing at first, but thanks to your advice I was able to, I just had to watch the video again to catch on what was not assigned correctly.

[Nina]

Awesome. NullReferenceExceptions are one of the most common error messages. The earlier you encounter them and learn how to fix them, the better.