Project folder organization

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#1

First of all, thanks to CodeMonkey for this course. I’ve been following it for a good couple weeks by now, and have learned more than a thing or two about game design.

Now, my question is: as the project grows beyond a simple prototype, how do you organize it? Do you go in the already presented structure where you have basic folder types (Animation/Scripts/Materials/etc.) with topic subfolders (UI/Level/Units/Interactibles/etc.) inside them, or you rather make big independent folders for UI, Level, Units, Interactibles… each containing their own sets of materials, scripts, prefabs, etc.?

#2

It depends on the project.

The more you have, the more you need to split it all up.

#3

You’ll find as your project grows, your structure will grow with it. I don’t like to go too many layers deep, to avoid file paths that are too long, but a level or two deep can be helpful at times.

#4

That is indeed a tricky problem and the solution will depend on a per project basis. I also don’t like to go too many layers deep so most of the time I try to put things in just one sub folder like Scripts > Pathfinding

Alternatively you can sort things by systems instead of by types. So instead of having Prefabs > TooltipPrefab and Scripts > TooltipScript you could make a Tooltip folder to hold everything related to a tooltip.

I like to keep the main folders separated by type (Scripts, Prefabs, Textures, just like in the course) but when I reuse some system that I’ve already done, like a Tooltip, then I usually keep that in its own folder.

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