# Blackboard

## Overview

The **Blackboard** module adds a virtual blackboard to your project, allowing you to write data to it, which other objects can be notified about, or read the values of.

Essentially, the **Blackboard** allows objects to pass data into a central repository which other objects can then retrieve, without having to talk to each other. The **Blackboard** module will also notify objects that follow specific *topic*/*subject* values, or subscribe to events that are passed into the **Blackboard**.

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This video demonstrates basic use of the Blackboard with the creation of the Blackboard Demo Scene.
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### Static reference to Blackboard is MainBlackboard

You are able to have multiple `Blackboard` objects in your scene. To help keep the required blackboard separated, the static reference to it is `MainBlackboard`.

The `Blackboard` prefab in the `_Repository Prefabs` folder has a `MainBlackboard` component on it, which creates the static reference to this objects `Blackboard`, which you can access with `MainBlackboard.blackboard`.
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