Hey Scratchers,
today I started my very first Scratch project (!!) and I am already stumbling on a, probably silly, problem.

Project page: Star Shooter

To cut it short the game includes 3 levels of difficulty where every level change implies an increase in movement speed for the falling stars across the screen.

The way I tried to solve it is the following:
I set up a variable called Star Speed, and set the value to 10, then I made every “Level Sprite” broadcast an announcement saying “Level Medium” or “Level Hard”, and then said “If (broadcast) = Level Medium” change speed by “5”. (Same with hard, just + 10).

But it is not working as I would have imagined, ie. the level selection doesn't have any effect on the star's speed. :-\

Help! :-)

Can you identify which sprite or scripts we're looking for?

Have a look at my pong breakout game for some idea.

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/141723626/#editor

I had a variable called level.

On the bat sprite I had a series of wait until level = commands so when the new level started I could change the ball speed, paddle speed or paddle size.

wait until <(level) = [3]>
change a variable

Not sure but perhaps your problem could be that broadcast start little start and broadcast level are happening together.

Thanks, Hammer! At the end I managed to solve it, set two additional broadcasts and fixed it that way :-)