Moving the player around

You might have heard that context is important in real life because context can make an ordinary word or statement look especially bad or fun. This is consistently true in most technical areas—more specifically when we try to describe visual or artistic aspects. Sometimes, it’s alright to use words interchangeably, but making a distinction might be crucial—even necessary every now and then. For example, at the end of the last section, we claimed that we’d move a character. It might be an absurd attempt to do mind-reading via the pages of a book, but would we be wrong if you imagined a biped creature such as Clara walking around using her legs and swinging her arms?

Chances are you did think about it that way, but you’ll have to wait for that at this moment since we haven’t even moved an object between two spots on the level. Referring to the analogy of context, not every move has to involve a fully-fledged animation...