I'm making a game where a sprite always starts at the top of the screen and goes down, but each time it hits the bottom, it spawns at a random x position and does it again. I know how to choose a random position for both x and y, but I want only the x position to be random. I want it to always start at the top of the screen, but a random left/right position (x position) If anyone knows how to do that, it would be great, thx.

yayitsrose wrote:

I'm making a game where a sprite always starts at the top of the screen and goes down, but each time it hits the bottom, it spawns at a random x position and does it again. I know how to choose a random position for both x and y, but I want only the x position to be random. I want it to always start at the top of the screen, but a random left/right position (x position) If anyone knows how to do that, it would be great, thx.

Hi there!

Is this what you meant?

go to x: (pick random (-200) to (200)) y: (y position)

set to
go to x: (variable) y: (whatever you want)

You can use a
Foverver
set (x variable) to (mouse x)
to find the highest and lowest x positions you want. Just show the variable and it'll tell you the x when you move your mouse.

when green flag clicked
go to x: (0) y: (200)
forever
change y by (-10)
if <(y position) < [-200]> then
set y to (200)
set x to (pick random (-200) to (200))
end
end

You may need to modify the numbers since I didn't test this, but this should work

Something like this should work:

Replace the min and max with whatever the boundaries are for the sprite, and replace the y with whatever you want. If you want to keep the same y value, just use the y position reporter in the y input.