Hi,
Prefabs were introduced in lecture “Using Prefabs In Unity” (currently #59) in the the Block Breaker section.
If you use a newer version of Unity (2018.3+), you could treat prefabs like game objects. The difference is that a prefab does not exist in the scene and is usually used as a blueprint for actual game objects in the scene.
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