Time for action – animate the Paddle

1. Jump back into your MouseFollow Script if you're not there already by double-clicking on it in the Project panel.

2. Change the line of code in the Update function ever so slightly so that it reads as follows:

       function Update () {
          transform.position.x += 0.2;
       }

The changes are very subtle. We added a plus sign (+) before the equals to sign (=), and we made the number smaller by adding a zero and a decimal place in front of it, changing it from 2 to 0.2.

Save the Script and test your game. The Paddle should scoot out the way, and fly straight off the right-edge of the screen!

What just happened – what witchcraft is this?

We made the 2 smaller, because the Paddle would have just rocketed off the screen in a twinkling and we may not have seen it. But, there's a tiny bit of code magic going on in that += bit.

By changing the transform.position.x property with += instead of =, we're saying that we want to add 0.2 to the x property on every update. The...