# All the things I need help with for my next game
**URL:** https://forum.makecode.com/t/all-the-things-i-need-help-with-for-my-next-game/34525
**Category:** Help
**Tags:** game
**Created:** [March 12, 2025, 5:33pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/all-the-things-i-need-help-with-for-my-next-game/34525 "2025-03-12T17:33:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@BotWarrior](https://forum.makecode.com/u/BotWarrior)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2025, 5:33pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/all-the-things-i-need-help-with-for-my-next-game/34525/1 "2025-03-12T17:33:01Z")
I am making a game (obviously). The idea is that you are a fire elemental in a cold dungeon trying to make it back to hell! You lose life (or “fire”) as time passes and when you step into water. You can also double jump, which ejects a little fireball which takes some of your life (“fire”). Here are all my current extensions.
There is a lot of them. This is already a decently worked on game and here is a sneak peak!!!
I will need some help with a background for the menu and some other stuff which is why I created this topic. Firstly some of my issues are that I am using the effects to make cool fire explosions, but when I transition to a different overworld map it stays there for the duration of the effect. This is really annoying and it would be great if someone could help me with this.
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### Author:  [@Danny\_Devention](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Danny_Devention)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2025, 6:16pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/all-the-things-i-need-help-with-for-my-next-game/34525/2 "2025-03-12T18:16:44Z")
I can help
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### Author:  [@BotWarrior](https://forum.makecode.com/u/BotWarrior)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2025, 8:44pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/all-the-things-i-need-help-with-for-my-next-game/34525/3 "2025-03-12T20:44:54Z")
Thank you!!! It is not using the default palette but I have an example that I can show in this topic. [Luke can you help with animations?](https://forum.makecode.com/t/luke-can-you-help-with-animations/34521)
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### Author:  [@Fixitude](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Fixitude)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2025, 8:45pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/all-the-things-i-need-help-with-for-my-next-game/34525/4 "2025-03-12T20:45:09Z")
I can help.
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### Author:  [@BotWarrior](https://forum.makecode.com/u/BotWarrior)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2025, 10:19pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/all-the-things-i-need-help-with-for-my-next-game/34525/5 "2025-03-12T22:19:41Z")
> [@BotWarrior](#):
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> Firstly some of my issues are that I am using the effects to make cool fire explosions, but when I transition to a different overworld map it stays there for the duration of the effect. This is really annoying and it would be great if someone could help me with this.
This is currently the biggest problem, I can’t seem to end the effects on transition.
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### Author:  [@Luke](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Luke)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2025, 10:19pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/all-the-things-i-need-help-with-for-my-next-game/34525/6 "2025-03-12T22:19:51Z")
if you use the clear effects block it stops immediately
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### Author:  [@BotWarrior](https://forum.makecode.com/u/BotWarrior)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2025, 12:00pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/all-the-things-i-need-help-with-for-my-next-game/34525/7 "2025-03-13T12:00:42Z")
Just to clarify-I can clear the effects that are just at coordinates using the effects extension by using the clear effects on a sprite? This is about the extension and the particles that are already created in the air.
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### Author:  [@Luke](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Luke)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2025, 9:11pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/all-the-things-i-need-help-with-for-my-next-game/34525/8 "2025-03-13T21:11:34Z")
wait actually no theres a rlly dumb way to do it
0 to stop, -1 to start it up again
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### Author:  [@BotWarrior](https://forum.makecode.com/u/BotWarrior)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2025, 5:14pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/all-the-things-i-need-help-with-for-my-next-game/34525/9 "2025-03-14T17:14:27Z")
I still don’t think that will work to stop an effect that is just at coordinates.
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### Author:  [@BotWarrior](https://forum.makecode.com/u/BotWarrior)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2025, 5:26pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/all-the-things-i-need-help-with-for-my-next-game/34525/10 "2025-03-14T17:26:17Z")
I really need help but I don’t want to post the game link. I have these things in the game which give you more “fire” (I have put one in the first room for testing purposes.). I recently realised that with my fully implemented saving system, I needed to store if they had been used. That lead me to do some code with four number arrays. 2 for column and row of overworld, and 2 for column and row for tile map. The idea was to do this in the loaded overworld map event. The if statement handling null was because I kept on getting handed a null Overworld column consumed. Here are other bits of code that reference it. When you overlap this code runs-
This is on game start
The actual code for checking inside overworld loaded event handler
And the problem I am getting on continue game is preventing me from opening the game. Everything is just broken and confusing.
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Totally unrelated side note, does this look like diagonal stripes to anyone else?
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### Author:  [@Luke](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Luke)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2025, 5:49pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/all-the-things-i-need-help-with-for-my-next-game/34525/11 "2025-03-15T17:49:39Z")
> [@Luke](#):
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> a rlly dumb way to do it
ahem
(also why would i post this if it didnt’ work???)
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### Author:  [@BotWarrior](https://forum.makecode.com/u/BotWarrior)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2025, 3:13am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/all-the-things-i-need-help-with-for-my-next-game/34525/12 "2025-03-17T03:13:16Z")
Never mind I fixed it. I guess I just had a total mind blank