Week 3 | Session 4 - Spawn Animals at Intervals - April 9, 2020

This is the same content covered in Lesson 2.4 in the independent Create with Code Course.

What you will make:

• The animals will spawn on a timed interval and walk down the screen, triggering a “Game Over” message if they make it past the player. If the player hits them with a projectile to feed them, they will be destroyed.

What you will learn:

• Repeat functions on a timer with InvokeRepeating
• Write custom functions to make your code more readable
• Edit Box Colliders to fit your objects properly
• Detect collisions and destroy objects that collide with each other
• Display messages in the console with Debug Log

To participate in this session and follow along, you need:

• Unity 2018.4 installed
• An up-to-date project open in Unity:
  • If you have followed along with us this week and have your own project ready, you are good to go!
  • You can also download the instructor's up-to-date project and import it (If you don't know how to import a project, you can read how here)

If this is your first Create with Code live learning session, you can catch up by:

1. Following along with the recordings of our previous live learning sessions
2. Completing the same lessons in the independent Create with Code Course

*Note - it is not necessary for you to catch up, but it is recommended for an ideal learning experience.

If you missed this live session, you can catch up with the video below:

If you missed this live session, you can catch up with the video below:

Get caught up:

If you were not able to finish the session along with the instructors, you can catch up by:

1. Re-watching this recorded session when it is posted in Step 3 above at 3am PT (10am UCT) the morning after this session's date
2. Picking up where you left off in Lesson 2.4 of the independent Create with Code Course

Optional homework:

• Display the total number of animals that have been fed in the console
• Complete the "Play Fetch" challenge from the full Create with Code course

Extra credit:

If you want to go ahead and preview what we'll be covering in the next session, you can give it a try in Lab 2 of the independent Create with Code Course.

If you went above and beyond and modified the challenge or prototype from this week, take a screenshot or screen-recording and post it here to share what you made! Please also share with us some of the "behind-the-scenes" info regarding how you did it.