Variables created outside the Update()

Question

Let's imagine I have a creature that moves:

        bool pathFound = false;
        void Update()
        {
            if(!pathFound)
            {
                //Find a destination point
                pathFound = true;
            }

            //Move creature to point

            if(Creature reached the point)
            {
                pathFound = false;
            }
        }

So that the movement depends on the variable created outside the function.
If i want to add exactly the same second creature the code is going to be dublicated:

        bool pathFound1 = false;
        bool pathFound2 = false;
        void Update()
        {
            if(!pathFound1)
            {
                //Find a destination point 1
                pathFound1 = true;
            }
            //Move creature 1 to point 1
            if(Creature reached the point 1)
            {
                pathFound1 = false;
            }

            if(!pathFound2)
            {
                //Find a destination point 2
                pathFound2 = true;
            }
            //Move creature 2 to point 2
            if(Creature2 reached the point 2)
            {
                pathFound2 = false;
            }
        }

What looks very strange and unefficient to me. And even if I will move all these steps in a function there should be created two almost the same functions with only difference in pathFound1 and pathFound2.
So I wonder how to achive the same result with more qualitative code?

Answer 1

Put boolean pathFound as public member in Creature, with default value initialized to false.

Then you can have:

void Update()
    {
        foreach (Creature creature in yourCreaturesList)
        {
            if (creature.PathFound)
            {
                //Find a destination point for creature
                creature.PathFound = true;
            }

            //Move creature to its target point
            if(creature reached the point)
            {
                creature.PathFound = false;
            }
        }
    }

If required, encapsulate other parameters inside the Creature class too.