Is this for me

[Silverwind]

LOL! Siggin', and using the title!

[Tireas Dragon]

Woh! Impressive... you don't by any chance eat nails with your Corn Flakes do you?

No I don't. Are they any good in corn flakes?

[Silverwind]

No I don't. Are they any good in corn flakes?

They're alright, but titanium screws are my thing... without any milk too!

[Gnome]

I eat PCs with my cornflakes.

[Gan]

Haha. I just eat cocoa rice.


-Gandolf

[WarHampster]

I don't eat breakfast at all.

C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!

[bellybot1]

now back on topic

With a lot of trial and error i have been able to create my first game, which i must say i am quite proud of. What it is is two sprites, controlled using the arrow keys and wasd, are put in separate corners to start of with, you then run around and when the two sprites touch an alert pops up and says Tag you're it! It then sends the two sprites back to their starting points. So it is my version of tiggy. two questions how can i stop them running of the screen and secondly is there a way of making that alert box saying every even time "Tag You're it William" And every odd time "Tag You're it Daniel"

Thanks

Oh and if you haven't realised yet im using silver creator

[Silverwind]

I'm not fluent in SC, but Eq, Hampster and Gan are. It sounds like an impressive first game though, I couldn't grasp how to use sprites for months, hehe...

[WarHampster]

two questions how can i stop them running of the screen and secondly is there a way of making that alert box saying every even time "Tag You're it William" And every odd time "Tag You're it Daniel"

For the first problem, just add another condition to your movement commands that stops the movement from continuing if the sprite is off screen. For example,

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IF SPRITEY(1) > (the highest y value on the screen) THEN
IF key$ = uparrow$ THEN
PUSHSPRITE 1,0,10
END IF
END IF

SPRITEY and SPRITEX return the x or y value of the sprite passed to them as a parameter. For example, lets say that sprite 1 is at the coordinates 10,30. Using SPRITEY(1) would return 30.

[bellybot1]

Thanks for that

But there is one problem, im able to do one wall but how do i add in the other walls. Please tell me how this is wrong.

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END IF
IF SPRITEY(1) < 0 THEN
   IF key$ = uparrow$ THEN
      PUSHSPRITE 1, 0, 25
END IF
IF SPRITEY(1) > 291 THEN
   IF key$ = downarrow$ THEN
      PUSHSPRITE 1, 0, -25
      END IF
   END IF
END IF

[Silverwind]

I'm not sure if this is helpful or not, but in GM an effective solution would be:

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IF SpriteX < LeftWall THEN SpriteX = LeftWall
IF SpriteX > RightWall THEN SpriteX = RightWall
IF SpriteY < UpWall THEN SpriteY = UpWall
IF SpriteY > DownWall THEN SpriteY = DownWall

I'm not sure what the SC syntax is, but the same logic would apply.

[EqwanoX]

what? you have your "<" and ">" mixed up, switch them and it should work.


in gm you would edit the sprite coordinate variables, in sc you just use the movesprite command, same thing. and you could assign the wall coordinates to variables to make it easier to edit later

let leftwall=0

if spritex(1)<leftwall then
movesprite 1, leftwall, spritey(1)
end if

[bellybot1]

Thanks Eqwanox

Now that ive made them not run of the board i only have a few more things to do:
Make rocks in the scenery that block movement.
Make the Title Card and Instructions
Make the Alert switch between words each time
Upload it onto this website.

If anyone could help with any of those i would be very grateful.

Thanks

[WarHampster]

I'm not sure what you mean by making the alert switch words...

As for obstacles, you could probably use something like this to start: http://www.silvercreator.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=sccode;action=display;num=1164845614

[Al Staffieri]

is there a way of making that alert box saying every even time "Tag You're it William" And every odd time "Tag You're it Daniel"

This is GameMaker code, but SC should be very similar

IF player = 1 THEN
  ALERT Tag You're it William.
  player = 2
ELSE
  ALERT Tag You're it Daniel.
  player = 1
END IF


You should let the players type in their names at the beginning and then use those name variables. I think Sc would be something like this:

IF player = 1 THEN
  ALERT "Tag You're it " + player1$
  player = 2
ELSE
  ALERT "Tag You're it " + player2$
  player = 1
END IF