Programming for Game Design: A Hands-On Guide with Godot

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W. Wang, T. WalcottProgramming for Game Designhttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0190-7_10

10. Functions

Wallace Wang¹   and Tonnetta Walcott²

(1)

San Diego, CA, USA

(2)

El Cajon, CA, USA

 

You can attach a script to any item in Godot to make it interactive. To avoid creating one massive script of code, it’s better to divide a large program into smaller ones that work together. Such small programs that make up a larger program are called functions.

Ideally, a function should perform one task and take up no more than one page or screen. By keeping a function small, it’s easy to understand how it works. Large amounts of code can be difficult to search to find errors. ...