Scripting our non-player characters

In this section, we will write the necessary scripts to manage the Cucumber Beetles in our game. Specifically, we will write scripts to accomplish the following:

• Beetle patrol
• Beetle finds and eats cucumber
• Beetle attacks player on the ground
• Beetle stands to attack

Getting organized

Since we are writing several scripts, we should stay organized. We can click Favorites | All Scripts in the Project panel to get a list of all the scripts in our project, but there are a lot of them, most of which we will not edit for our game. So, let's create a folder in the Project panel to organize our custom scripts. Here are the steps: 

1. In the Project panel, right-click the Assets folder
2. Select Create | Folder
3. Name the new folder Custom Scripts

Now that we have a folder for our custom scripts, let's move a few: 

1. In the Project panel, clickFavorites | All Scripts. 
2. Scroll until you find the BeetleNPC script we created earlier in this chapter.
3. Drag the BeetleNPC script to our Custom...