Displaying Variables?

Hello everyone!

I’ve just picked up MakeCode Arcade and both a Meowbit and a Retro Arcade for Education, and I must say, I’m quite pleased with the tool so far!

I’m a Game Design professor, and an Independent game maker - I mostly use Unity and C#, but I also taught Processing (Java)…

I’ve been learning how to use MakeCode arcade, even created a small video of some WIP reskining the Monkey Run tutorial : https://youtu.be/1BiKfAEYAjw?si=MKQpgqbke8GnKnyB

Anyway, here’s my question:
I want to display how many “bananas” my player has collected. But I don’t seem to be able to find any block to display text relative to the camera (my environment is tiled, so I want my text coordinates to be parented to the camera, not the world coordinates)
I’ve looked at extensions such as “Text Sprite” and “story” but it doesn’t seem to have what I need.

I’ve just started playing with MakeCode Arcade a couple days ago, so I’m very much a noob: if anyone would be kind enough to point me in the right direction? :slight_smile: Thanks!

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You could change the score which is found in this tab:
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Or you could use this:


along with the the text sprite extension if you want to display text, or have more options for customizability.

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