Unity Chat Bubbles

Independent
Unity Asset Developer
3 Weeks
Unity • C# • Editor

A lightweight Unity UI utility for rendering chat-style message bubbles inside a ScrollRect.
It handles only the view layer of a chat or dialogue system, keeping gameplay, networking, and data logic fully decoupled.

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Key Features

  • Developed a purely view-layer UI utility that inherently decouples data modeling and networking logic from visual presentation.
  • Engineered automatic ScrollRect injection, spawning and organizing sent, received, and generic awaiting state bubbles autonomously.
  • Abstracted manual UI constraints, letting Unity's layout grouping mathematically manage vertical spacing and horizontal resizing.
  • Exposed an intentionally minimal public API to prevent bloated developer onboarding:
AppendMessage(string message, BubbleType bubbleType);
ClearMessages();
  • Architected a fully prefab-driven customization workflow, removing the need for designers to touch backend scripts.
  • Developed custom Editor tooling containing integrated testing buttons to safely evaluate bubble layouts dynamically outside of Play Mode.