Scratch

Thanks archmage. I am doing a project for uni, basic project. We are going to create a shooter style scroll game, like contra.

I have already tried the code in seperate sprites and drop the sprites 10 layers. that seemed to work perfectly.

I have a problem with the things my character stands on, if I use a sprite, then the character sometimes gets stuck, or, letssay his gun touches the sprite at a drop, the character could stay on the ledge just by his gun, becuase he is "touching spirte", so I used the " touching colour" code, and that works, but not all the time, I think this is a problem with scratch? not sure.

Thanks for your help.

I have already programmed the bullet as a seperate sprite, and then the option of picking up different ammo packs, changes bullets, damage etc.

Also coding which restricts the character from shooting behind him, so if facing forward the character would have to turn left to shoot towards a smaller X axis position and vice versa.

I have created seperate sprites for terrains, and I think I will go with the option of actually drawing the platfroms on each terrain sprite, and use "if touching colour".

sprite has a lag problem in between x axis ( 480 * 1) (480 * 2 ) etc, so the stage needs to be a colour which hides the transition between platforms or terrains at these points.

any thoughts on 8 bit music(royalty free sounds), or should I compose it myself with audio plug-ins for a DAW?

Thanks.

Is there a possibility to code storage of a save game?

Can I add the save game feature to my game.

Nice. another thing is, that when my game is run, the character can move backwards into negative x axis and runs of the platform, how can I create a block to stop him? I have a sprite called, stopLeft and stopRight, but because the are hidden it doesnt stop hom, or should I just set an if statement "if x position = x postion of stopLeft change cX, the variable I created, change cX by 0. cX is linked to X.

Hello archmage, I need your help with this.

In the platform game i am working on, I have made the platforms, different sprites, which scrolls perfectly, but what if I want to set everything back to how it was when the flag was clicked.

For example. when the player passes the stage, I want everything to go back to the beginning, or should I just add more platform sprites, but i think this is slowing the game down.

I see in your archknights game, there is only 2 platforms that change cosutmes, how would I link that to scrollX?

advice please

thanks

Thanks, that is the better method of doing it.

Thanks again, oh, I did set the scrollX to zero to return it but it didnt work, I will try with a few other values.

That's great thanks, but what do I use to control scrollX , should I link it to the movement of the character? another thing, why does velocity decrease by 2 if the character moves right?  also , what do I start the values(terrainCostume, scrollX, velocityX)  on, 0 ??

Thanks in advance

I have the code like that, but it doesnt scroll to the next platform?

I am sticking with the multi sprite method,  another thing, I have set my monster sprites to positions using the same code as the platforms, i set them to scrollX + 480 * (terrain number). but even thought they are positioned there, they don't hide like the terrains do? they stick a little into the screen on the right, and scroll with the screen until the character gets to the position then it stops scrolling?

Any ideas?