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Hmmmm.... i think the best way i can explain it is....: some people can make games where you can use your mouse or the arrow keys to make a character walk around, go through doors, and lots more stuff. i mostly want to know how to make a character move with the arrow keys or mouse. because i have alot of ideas but i just dont know how to make characters move and walk through doors. so if you still dont get what i mean i can show yo\u some examples.

That's a very good explanation, archmage!

monkeygurl101, if you want your character to be animated, you might also want to switch between at least two different costumes while moving it around the screen, e.g. one costume could show the character's left foot in front, the next one the character's right foot. This would create a 'walking' impression.

ririri123, you might find it easier to have just one variable "room number".  You can then do things like setting the background to the room number.  In v1.2.1 you can even use the background number of the stage in a sensor, and not need to declare a variable!

another way to make the character move with the arrow keys is

<when[ left arrow ]key pressed>
<change x by( -10

<when[ right arrow ]key pressed>
<change x by( 10

<when[ up arrow ]key pressed>
<change y by( 10

<when[ down arrow ]key pressed>
<change y by( -10

Ok now i get how to make a picture animated or just move it but now i kinda dont get how you can make a person go through a door......

Hmmm i was gonna create a mini version of club penguin so here are all the answers to those: i want my character to walk through doors. like click on the door and it will bring me too the room maybe. The character will be a penguin. just a regular door. different places like.. a town with building you can go into...

those r my answers. i hope they were a little help

Excellent answer, funkymonkey, seems like we were writing up our answers at the same time, so there might be some redundancies in mine:

If you want your "rooms" to be different backgrounds for you stage you could draw several backgrounds and a "door" sprite with two costumes (1: 'closed' and 2:'open). Then you might script something like:

[in sprite named "door"]

   when 'door' is clicked
      if costume# = 1
         switch to costume 'open'
      else
         broadcast 'next room'
         switch to costume 'closed'

[in the stage scripting area]

   when I receive 'next room'
   next costume

Using something like this you could let your character (or your first person player) loop through the rooms in your game. Each time you click on a closed door, it will open. Each time time you click on an opened door, it will take you into the next room and close the door again.

If you want the door to be at a different location in each room, don't forget to move it (you can find out which room you're in by checking the background# system variable of the stage).

You could also build a script that can close an opened door again, e.g. when you press a certain key.

Hope that helps to get you going. Please let me know, when your project is finished, I'm very curious about your ideas!

nevermind i figured it out!!

monkeygurl101 wrote:

Hmmmm.... i think the best way i can explain it is....: some people can make games where you can use your mouse or the arrow keys to make a character walk around, go through doors, and lots more stuff. i mostly want to know how to make a character move with the arrow keys or mouse. because i have alot of ideas but i just dont know how to make characters move and walk through doors. so if you still dont get what i mean i can show yo\u some examples.

So you mean... a game? Uh... download some of mine & try to learn from them. Id make it easier if I could, if the comment block was still here & if I had the time, but I dont. Sorry.

Last edited by Mick (2007-12-14 11:10:04)

well i just can't find out how i can make a game.

I can not make a cool action game in scratch all I can do is just change the things I want in someone else games HELP!

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