Introduction to Game Design, Prototyping, and Development

Chapter 20

Variables and Components

This chapter introduces you to many of the types of variables and components used throughout Unity C# programming. By the end of the chapter, you will understand the most common types of C# variables and some important variable types that are unique to Unity.

This chapter also introduces you to Unity’s GameObjects and components. Any object in a Unity scene is a GameObject, and the components that comprise them enable everything from the positioning of a GameObject to physics simulation, special effects, displaying a 3D model onscreen, and character animation.

Introducing Variables

To recap a bit of Chapter 18, “Introducing Our Language: C#,” a variable is just a name that can be defined to be hold a specific ...