I'm brand new to Scratch and working on an animation of a game of Sardines. I want three of my four sprites to count to ten in unison, but I can't seem to figure out how.

I started by simply having one character broadcast “count” and the other three receive it. My sprites all started at one, but then counted in unison by three at a time (1, 4, 7). I tried broadcasting three different orders so each sprite would receive their own, but that didn't change anything. I tried delaying each one by just a hair, but that just caused them to count in a line (first sprite said 1, second said 2, and so on). I tried having them count by .333 instead of by 1, and that almost worked, except all the numbers were animated as 2.00, 3.00, etc. Not exactly natural. Now I'm at a loss. Any ideas?

(Note: when I click the command individually in each sprite's code, it works perfectly. It just won't work when they're all counting together.)

Thanks!

For future reference, if you would like help with a script, it's usually very helpful to share a link to your project.

However, this problem seems simple enough. Let me guess, all three sprites have a script that looks something like this?

when I receive [count v]
set [number v] to [0]
repeat (10)
change [number v] by (1)
say (number) for (1) secs
end

If that's the case, then what's happening is all 3 sprites receive it at the same time, and all of them add 1 to your number variable at the same time, making it look like it's going up by 3.

Is all of that accurate, or is your script different?

Sorry! First time posting. I just started last night.

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/207944873/

And it's identical except I have “set number to 1”.

You should programm it so that only one character increases the counter. Remixed.

Thanks!