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Thanks a lot 

I'm just going to formulate question 2 differently.

2. Since we have different sprites for each of the letters that you have, we need to find a way to make sure that all the sprites that connect make a word, not just, let's say, 2 of them. So we need to find a way to make the game sense, that there are more than 2 letters in this word.

Hope that makes the question more understandable 

Prestige wrote:

Hey there! 
1) you can tell the blocks to go to a rounded position instead of the real position, which gives the impression of the blocks 'snapping' together.

(Round (mouse x / 15)) x 15 

Replace the 15 here with the length of your squares for the letter blocks. See if that works 

2) For 2, im not completely sure what you're asking for 

3) Make a list and add to it the entire word bank, one word per item. Then use an if statement which checks if the wordbank list 'contains' item (word) - if so its all good, if not the word doesn't exist or isn't in the word bank 

I hope some of this helps you, good luck with your game guys! 

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If I understand correctly for your second question you want to make the game sense the word that the player is creating? Indeed this is tricky. If you have 1 sprite for the letter, with all the letters as different costumes you can name all of the costumes the letter the represent (eg name the costume for D, D). You could then try and use something like this when checking if the word exists.

When the player puts down their letter, add them to a list called "word". Get the player to add letters in the order of the word, so 'carrot' would be c,a,r,r,o,t and not t,o,r,r,a,c. Add the costume to the list 'word' by [add 'costume of letter' to 'word']. Then once the word is complete (make 2 new variables called 'word check' and counter);

set counter to 1
repeat length of 'list word'
set 'word check' to JOIN 'wordcheck' and item 'counter' of word
change counter by 1

if 'list word bank' contains word check
     word is ok
else
    word doesn't exist

I cannot help you too much more here because its hard for me to visualise when writing it but you're going to have to have a play around. Let me know if you come up with anything 

Last edited by Prestige (2012-05-07 06:10:36)