Let's just say that art assets for this example are from abstract collection.

While I have made this example a long time ago, it appears that questions about such still are common, and thus it would make sense to give it a 'searchable form' of post here.
This example demonstrates creation of 3 things:

• Coins, as a basic collectable item.
• Floating text, which is used here to display '+1' on picking up a coin, but has many other uses.
• Shops, as objects that sell you useful (or here, useless) things for coins.

Overall, rather simplistic, however still useful for ones that do not know what they're doing with these.

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