Game.Lives question help

freshintech

Hello, I have a question about game.lives. I have a fruit ninja type game and Im trying to figure out how to take away a life if the player doesnt swipe the fruit in time and it falls off the screen. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks

JohnPapiomitis

A simple way is to put walls all around your scene outside of the play area and have a rule in the fruit when it collides with those walls change attribute game.lives to game.lives-1

freshintech

haha thanks but the problem with the wall is when the actor comes up for me too swipe it, it loses a life. How do I make it so that when the actor comes up it doesnt lose a life, only when it falls.

freshintech

RKS said:
EDIT: Sorry this won't work sorry.

Ok thanks

JohnPapiomitis

have your rule when actor collides with the wall AND attribute self motion linear velocity y < 0

then it will only take effect when the fruit is moving down

freshintech

JohnPapiomitis said:
have your rule when actor collides with the wall AND attribute self motion linear velocity y < 0

then it will only take effect when the fruit is moving down

How do I do this? im not that good at gamesalad. can you give me specific steps? thanks

freshintech

RKS said:
In the rule there will be a label that says: When all conditions are valid and there will be a plus button right next to that label. Push it. Then in the drop down box change when actor recieves event to attribute. Then push the little logo by the text box. choose actorname.motion.linear velocity. y. then in dropdown box choose <, and then in the next textbox type in zero. Make sure the collide condition is still there. That should work.

Thanks! And how do I make it so after the actor loses all three lives, it makes it game over?

JohnPapiomitis

make a rule when attribute game.lives is less then or equal to 0
-change scene to game over