The wall object

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Things to look out for

  1. Does you player walk through walls? Have you set the wall to solid?

The player object

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Things to look out for

  1. Does your player go the wrong way when you press the arrow keys? Check the actions in the player object to make sure you selected the correct direction.
  2. Does your player walk through walls? Have you setup a collision event with the wall and told the player to stop?
  3. Does your player keep moving when you let go of the arrow key? Have you setup the Key Release events?

Adding an enemy

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Things to look out for

  1. Does it go through walls? Have you setup a collision event with the wall?
  2. Does the player keep losing loads of lives? Have you told the player to jump to the start when it touches the enemy?
  3. Remember, you can use duplicate for any new enemy you create!

No more lives

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Things to look out for

  1. Does the message keep coming up forever? You did not add a restart game action after the message. You will have to crash out of the game.

Increasing lives

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Things to look out for

  1. Make sure you tick relative when increasing or decreasing the score or lives
  2. Remember that you can do the same thing for making objects that increase lives also

Adding portals

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Things to look out for

  1. Does an error message come up? Do you have another room?

Creating a background

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Things to look out for

  1. Does your background keep repeating? You did not make it the same size as your room.

Special skill 1: Getting an enemy to follow

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Things to look out for

  1. Does your enemy not follow the player? Make sure you have entered the playerObjectName.x and playerObjectName.y in the correct boxes.
  2. Did you get an error message? Make sure there are no spaces in the player object name (you will have to rename it if there is).

Special skill 2: Camera following player

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Things to look out for

  1. Did nothing come up when you loaded your game? Make sure you ticked the Enable use of Views and Visible when rooms starts options
  2. Does your player disappear when it gets passed the edge of the screen? Make sure you set the Object following option correctly

Special skill 3: Portal only works once items collected

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Things to look out for

  1. Make sure the new action is above the one that loads the next levels
  2. Make sure you select the item you need to collect from the options

Special skill 4: Invisible portal

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Things to look out for

  1. Make sure you write the code carefully.
  2. Make sure you select the item you need to collect from the options