Programming Techniques:Standard Game Object and Function names

Contents 1 Initialize Variants 2 Shutdown 3 Updating 4 Camera 5 Game Objects/Characters

Initialize Variants

• Create
• Init
• Initialize
• Initialise
• Load
• Main
• Prime
• Run
• SetUp (stolen from unit testing)
• Start
• Startup

Shutdown

• Cleanup
• Close
• Deinitialize
• Delete
• Detonate
• Destroy
• Dispose
• Drop
• End
• Exit
• Finalize
• Finish
• Free
• Kill
• Murder
• Nihilize
• Release
• Shutdown
• Smite
• TearDown (stolen from unit testing)
• Terminate
• Uninitialize
• Unload

Updating

• Calc/Calculate
• Func
• Proc
• Step
• Think
• Tick
• Update

Camera

• Camera
• Eye
• Screen
• View

Game Objects/Characters

• Actor
• Avatar
• Character
• Entity
• Gadget
• Item
• Node
• Object
• Player
• Sprite
• Unit