So i'm making a super mario bro's style platformer. Where I'm running into problems is that I want the player to be able to land on top of a platform but die if he hits the side. My first thought was

Make a rule that either 1) keeps enemy 2 offscreen until it is triggered or 2) keeps enemy 2 alpha=0 until triggered. Since I'm guessing your enemy isn't there for aesthetic purposes, having it offscr

Now my problem is that actor "enemy 2" is supposed to spawn later on in the game and it has to be a layer behind "enemy 1". And i only know how to make a layer by d

I have 7 unique actors which I'm calling my Zones. These Zones are spread out in a horizontal line. On the top of each Zone is an additional unique actor which I'm calling a Character. So, I have a to

Maybe a pizza order can be generated randomly from a menu at the start of each run, let's say the order comes through for a vegetarian . . . then you have to collect the vegetarian toppings on the way

I agree with that, but it isnt much compared to gamesalad. Plus, I dont reallly know what it SCratch is at its best because the top 5 games, well, suck.

If I understand the question correctly, you would put a change attribute at the beginning of the actor (at the top) so when it spawns, it increases the number by one.

it more complex than that? And your example to destroy the actors when game.flowIndex=5... is the idea that when you reach a certain limit of behaviors to then affect the game in some way (in this c

one thing I notice is that the parallax scrolling maybe seems slightly off. the layer behind that of the main vehicle (tarmac or trees) seems to move faster than the layer with the vehicle on... as if

Ends on Sunday top score wins,

add a transparent layer and move that down in the list

@motherhoose I wish the way Apple sorted apps was better. They need to give people more choices than by date and top and I say that as a user because I hate trying to find say a good word processing a

in the GS creator in your scene you will see a blue arrow pointer and what looks like a video camera (near top left). If you click the camera it shows you the tracking area of the the camera and you c

a png is a flat image (1 layer) … but, usually one creates in multiple layers … hence the export

Got some new stuff regarding a recent game I worked on that broke the iPad top 150, as well as a personal project of mine, Patchwork Battles.

Do a 'save as' and save a copy of your working file as a png. This will put all visible layers on a single layer in the png. The save for web and device does this as well and avoids problems with any

It's an over the top example, but those 10 years of learning the guitar and doing band practice while everyone else went on holiday and spending your money on rehearsal studios and a compressor and ye

My problem is that i have an actor(enemy2) that spawns later in the game and i want it to be a layer behind actor enemy1 which begins spawning in the beginning. I only know to create actor layers by d

I have a series of actors that come on screen from the left. When you press them, they need to be destroyed as they keep on moving across screen and you can still tap them.

On top of that i have also done the Game Complete screen as well.