I'm making a game for school and it does't work the way I want it to. I wanted when the penguin is clicked, for the screen to go a background I made and when it is not clicked for the lives sprite to change a costume to a less life and when there are no lives for a background to pop up with you lose. I already made all the sprites and backgrounds. Also, the background is constantly switching backdrops until you win or lose. I've tried playing around with it but I can't figure it out. Can someone help me? The project is called the nearly impossible game by 14ivantm. Thanks.

Would you mind if you share the project here so we can find out what's wrong with it?

You have 2 different lives variables. There should be just one global one.

yes

I can't figure out how to share it. Sorry.

14ivantm wrote:

I can't figure out how to share it. Sorry.

You have made 2 sprite specific Lives variables. Do the following
Delete the variables from both sprites.
Create a new variable lives (all lower case)
Make sure this variable is being used everywhere (drag and drops, and pull downs)
There shouldn't be a uppercase Lives anywhere.

i followed your advice and now the background switch but not continuously and the lives don't change costumes when there is one less life you also win automatically, it is too fast

So in sprite 1, the switch costume commands have the wrong costume names in them. They have to have either numbers (1,2,3,…) or the real names from the pull downs.

Also I changed Penguin1 in this remix. http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/13139044/ Do the changes make sense?

thanks for your help @scubajerry but i still have more issues, like first it says you win and then 2 seconds later it says you lose could you please help me figure it out?

14ivantm wrote:

thanks for your help @scubajerry but i still have more issues, like first it says you win and then 2 seconds later it says you lose could you please help me figure it out?

In Penguin1 after the the

stop [other scripts in sprite v]

// add
broadcast [Game over v]
wait (2) secs //this is optional
stop [this script v]

Also - your PLAY AGAIN costume has a white horizontal line in the upper left hand corner that I suspect you don't want.

hi i am a new user can somebody tell me how to use this thing.

dandilon wrote:

hi i am a new user can somebody tell me how to use this thing.

Welcome

What thing?

thanks for all your help but i have one more question, how can i make if you win, the background to change to a background i have for winning and vice versa for losing.

14ivantm wrote:

thanks for all your help but i have one more question, how can i make if you win, the background to change to a background i have for winning and vice versa for losing.

It appears to already do this.