Game Over isn't working, would like some help

CrazyCoolYT

In my top down shooter, whenever you get hit by a zombie, you lose a life. Lose a life enough times and you'll reach zero (obvi) which is supposed to trigger a game over screen. However, I got around to fixing some bugs and I caused another one – the game over screen just doesn't trigger.

Here's the link to my project: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/689579905/

I've tried using a system where while GamePlaying = true, then if Lives = 0 or Lives < 0 then broadcast GameOver, but it just doesn't seem to work.
Does anybody have any ideas?

Most of the code in this system is found under the game objects “Player” and “GameOver”. Should be pretty simple and work easily but just doesn't.

Thank you so much!

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BigNate469

I know that this might not directly help you, but you should group all of the scripts under your hat blocks under ONE hat block- rather than:

when I receive [some message v]
Do something

when I receive [the same message v]
Do something else

Use:

when I receive [some message v]
Do something
Do something else

That way, you know what order things happen in- because everything happens in an order when it comes to computer programming, you just can't always see that.

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Also, the answer to your question: put the repeat loop that checks the number of lives the player has under a

when I receive [Game Start v]

Rather than a

when green flag clicked

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eefie_gang

All you need to do is add a forever loop around the code in player sprite that broadcasts game over. what its doing is when the flag is clicked is it checking if the game is playing one time so all you need is a forever loop and that Should fix it.

when green flag clicked
forever
if <(Game Playing) = [True]> then
repeat until <(Game Playing) = [Flase]>
if <<[(Lives)] < [0]> or <[(Lives)] = [0]>> then
broadcast [GAME OVER v]
hide variable [Lives v]
set [Game Playing v] to [False]
end
end
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That should be the code

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BigNate469

eefie_gang wrote:
All you need to do is add a forever loop around the code in player sprite that broadcasts game over. what its doing is when the flag is clicked is it checking if the game is playing one time so all you need is a forever loop and that Should fix it.
when green flag clicked
forever
if <(Game Playing) = [True]> then
repeat until <(Game Playing) = [Flase]>
if <<[(Lives)] < [0]> or <[(Lives)] = [0]>> then
broadcast [GAME OVER v]
hide variable [Lives v]
set [Game Playing v] to [False]
end
end
end
end
That should be the code

The issue with that is that it would be endlessly running when it does not need to be. Attaching it to the message block that runs on the game start makes more sense, because that way you don't have another laggy forever loop running when it doesn't need to be.

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CrazyCoolYT

Thank you guys! I had it on Game Start before but I tried changing it over to “when flag is clicked” to see if that fixed anything. This advice was great, thank you!

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