Scratch

Hello everyone.

I'm new to scratch and making my first game ever for a school assignment to make a game. I started this a few days ago and it was really fun so I started making progress on it at home. Without the teacher's aid or help I have most likely practiced bad scripting.

I need advice on how I can cut my scripting down and make the game less laggy. It's a scroller shooter game based on Halo. It's called Halo-2D. The game is no where near finished and I have only just made it run, crouch, jump etc by using probably long workarounds etc. The way I change costumes doesn't seem very efficient and I feel that can be improved too. My attempt at making him look at where your aiming and shooting where your aiming seems very inefficient and there must be a better way to do these things with more simple scripting.

Here is my game, it's based on archmage's scrolling engine:

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/halogameaccount/569142

Can you please check it out, download it and give advice on how the scripts could be more simpler and efficient. Also please test the script change before posting if you can.

Thank you.