Sorry your browser is not supported!

You are using an outdated browser that does not support modern web technologies, in order to use this site please update to a new browser.

Browsers supported include Chrome, FireFox, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer 10+ or Microsoft Edge.

2D All the way! / About Lives

Author
Message
Nobody 1307
16
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 9th Mar 2008
Location:
Posted: 9th Mar 2008 20:46
Link
I am new to the use of DarkBasic But I have no clue how I would implement lives into a game.... Is there any easy explanation someone could give me? like an example game or code snippet as an example?
Back to top
Profile PM
Insert Name Here
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 20th Mar 2007
Location: Worcester, England
Posted: 9th Mar 2008 21:37
Link
Have a variable lives, which decreases every time the player loses a life. You can then check to see if lives=0, and that leads to game over.

Lee Bamber - Blame Beer
Back to top
Profile PM
Venge
17
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 13th Sep 2006
Location: Iowa
Posted: 10th Mar 2008 01:55
Link
You mean like little sprite images on the screen showing how many lives you have left?

There are over 100 billion galaxies in our observable universe, each containing up to a trillion stars.

Feeling small yet?
Back to top
Profile PM
Van B
Moderator
21
Years of Service
User Offline
Joined: 8th Oct 2002
Location: Sunnyvale
Posted: 12th Mar 2008 12:18
Link
I'd tend to use a set range of sprites, say your lives variable is called LIVES, and you have a little 16x16 heart image loaded as image 100

For n=1 to 10
if n<lives
sprite n+50,100,n*16,0
else
if sprite exist(n+50)
delete sprite n+50
endif
endif
next n

That would step through 9 sprites from 51 to 60, and create or delete them depending on how many lives you have left. I'd do this in a function that I call every time the game starts or a life is lost. I'd use a similar system for score as well, like having the digits as images then convert the score to text and check each element, creating the sprites as I go.


less is more, but if less is more how you keeping score?
Back to top
Profile PM Email
Back to top

Login to post a reply

Server time is: 2024-05-06 17:12:48
Your offset time is: 2024-05-06 17:12:48