Hello All,

I'm brand new to Scratch, but found myself hooked after playing with it for only a short while last night. I'm building a version of PAC-MAN and have a number of things already in place (e.g., movement of PacMan, Movement of Ghost, pac-dots (large and small), old-school video game board as the backdrop, score counter, etc.). My question is, how do I create a script where PacMan (sprite 1) touches one of the large pac-dots (sprite 2) and it changes the costume of one (or more) of my Ghost (sprite 3) (e.g., from light blue to navy blue). Is something like this possible, and if so, what would be the proper set up?

Many thanks in advance for your help!

I would love to help, but I unfortunately have to go to bed… D:
I'll try to help tomorrow morning, unless someone else help you out before I can.
Anyways, I apologize, but good night!

When sprite1 touches sprite2, send a message.
Sprite3 will get the message and can do something such as change the color effect.

JonFry23 wrote:

Hello All,

I'm brand new to Scratch, but found myself hooked after playing with it for only a short while last night. I'm building a version of PAC-MAN and have a number of things already in place (e.g., movement of PacMan, Movement of Ghost, pac-dots (large and small), old-school video game board as the backdrop, score counter, etc.). My question is, how do I create a script where PacMan (sprite 1) touches one of the large pac-dots (sprite 2) and it changes the costume of one (or more) of my Ghost (sprite 3) (e.g., from light blue to navy blue). Is something like this possible, and if so, what would be the proper set up?

Many thanks in advance for your help!

I had this in my Pac-man prototype, so I can help you out. Create a variable (doesn't matter what it's called, just something you know what it means) for all sprites. Drag an ‘if’ and a ‘set variable’ block onto either the Pac-man or large pac-dot script area. Put a <touching Sprite2?> block in the space after the ‘if’, then put the ‘set variable’ block inside the ‘if’ block and change the number to 1. Then add a ‘wait’ and another ‘set variable’ block beneath the other ‘set variable’ block. (this is so the ghost doesn't change back right away after Pac-man eats the dot) Then for the ghost, drag an ‘if’ block onto the script area. Put a <(variable name)=1> block in the ‘if’ block, then put a ‘switch costume’ block inside it. This is what the scripts should look like:

Pac-man/Large Pac-dot
| if <touching Sprite2?>|
| ||set (variable name) to (1)|
| ||wait (amount) secs|
| ||set (variable name) to (0)|

Ghost:
| if <(variable name)=1>|
| ||switch costume to [pac-dot eaten|

I wish I could help, but the blocks thing here in the forums is hard.

TheCrafter01 wrote:

I wish I could help, but the blocks thing here in the forums is hard.

Like I said on the other topic, DO NOT NECROPOST.

Reporting for closure.

cs395875 wrote:

TheCrafter01 wrote:

I wish I could help, but the blocks thing here in the forums is hard.

Like I said on the other topic, DO NOT NECROPOST.

Reporting for closure.

The question was never resolved, therefore it cannot be closed.

Also, pretty sure this topic isn't that old, please stop acting like you know everything.

I'd consider 2013 pretty old. If JonFry23 didn't figure it out, he probably gave up by now. Maybe he just didn't respond.

NanoRook wrote:

cs395875 wrote:

TheCrafter01 wrote:

I wish I could help, but the blocks thing here in the forums is hard.

Like I said on the other topic, DO NOT NECROPOST.

Reporting for closure.

The question was never resolved, therefore it cannot be closed.

Also, pretty sure this topic isn't that old, please stop acting like you know everything.

The question was answered.
Three years!
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