Initializing Smiley Catch

[xenoruh]

Hi, I spent along time trying to learn what the Initializegame actor does. I finally came to the conclusion that it does nothing, it was probably placed there just for fun. Have I missed something?

[jazz_e_bob]

In this game the Initializegame actor initializes timer and sets the view actor coordinates. (See code under createActor.)

An Initialization actor is handy because you can keep all of your start-up variables in one place.

[xenoruh]

I understand the theory, but when I tried it myself, it didn't work, when I tried that Smiley Catch game demo I found that, that didn't work either. It seems to be doing nothing. So much so that when I deleted it, the game ran as normal.

[jazz_e_bob]

Tricky.

Well J4F wrote it. With any luck she'll add to this thread.

I just checked. You are right. Removing the actor and its region does no harm to the game. As far as I can tell neither are referenced by the program at any time.