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Unity 4.x Game Development by Example: Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   Unity 4.x Game Development by Example: Beginner's Guide A seat-of-your-pants manual for building fun, groovy little games quickly with Unity 4.x

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849695268
Length 572 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Unity 4.x Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. That's One Fancy Hammer! FREE CHAPTER 2. Let's Start with the Sky 3. Game #1 – Ticker Taker 4. Code Comfort 5. Game #2 – Robot Repair 6. Game #2 – Robot Repair Part 2 7. Don't Be a Clock Blocker 8. Hearty Har Har 9. Game #3 – The Break-Up 10. Game #3 – The Break-Up Part 2 11. Game #4 – Shoot the Moon 12. Game #5 – Kisses 'n' Hugs 13. AI Programming and World Domination 14. Action! Appendix Index

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A function is a piece of the Script that can be executed, or called, over and over again. It's like having a sandwich that you can eat as many times as you want. We use functions to organize our code, and to house lines of code that we may need more than once.

The function we used is called Update. Just as there's an ongoing physics process in the background of our game that we can tap into to make our ball move and bounce, there's an ongoing Update loop as well. Update is eaten (or called) again and again and again while our game runs. Any Script lines, or statements, that we put inside the Update function tap into that loop.

Notice the way the Update function is declared. On a restaurant menu, we might declare that our Street-Fightin' Hoagie is a scrumptious offering of mile-high pastrami with lettuce, tomatoes, bacon, and cucumbers, topped with a fried egg, and slathered with mustard. We can declare a function much more simply. It starts with the word function...

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