A simple Q

[fuzzybunny3]

I have a Q. Here it is. Lets look a a game say zelda(classic) if you press A button the sword dose a animation(link slashing his sword) and plays a sound. How dose this happen. My guess is a some sort of loop gose on during the whole game. But then when you think of it there would be hundreds of if's, while's, and other simlar compands. That would be some cunckey code. Also very hard to read the code.

I'm a 5 day newbie.

[Valmont]

Games are loops. Yes. In old days, there were many decision taking branch statements. But often algorithms can be expressed in terms of a mathematical formula, reducing code, increasing speed, but reducing readability.

These days, program languages have some type(s) of abstractions and decoupling. Often reducing entities to so- called stand-alone units. Code from strangers is always hard to read, but with OO for example one could concentrate on a single unit of work. That should make it easier.