# Help on diver game **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [September 26, 2020, 2:02am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/help-on-diver-game/3640 "2020-09-26T02:02:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![UnderwaterAstronaut](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/underwaterastronaut/32/2228_2.png) [@UnderwaterAstronaut](https://forum.makecode.com/u/UnderwaterAstronaut)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 2:02am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/help-on-diver-game/3640/1 "2020-09-26T02:02:23Z")
I am trying to make an adventure game where you play as this “diver”. I was planning on making it able to interact with other such as plants to collect them but my code won’t work when I tried it! I also tried to make a statue in which you can save your progress on but when it’s asked, you cant press A to answer yes. Can someone help me figure out what’s wrong and how to fix it? > **[deep sea diver v2.1](https://arcade.makecode.com/96109-55229-74632-47006)** > > Made with ❤️ in Microsoft MakeCode Arcade. ---
**Author:** ![LcAtonal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/lcatonal/32/16800_2.png) [@LcAtonal](https://forum.makecode.com/u/LcAtonal)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 5:37am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/help-on-diver-game/3640/2 "2020-09-26T05:37:56Z")
For the harvesting animation, I think that deleting animations that is not so important could help. I have made a game and due to the amount of animations, some could not work. ---
**Author:** ![jwunderl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/jwunderl/32/5308_2.png) [@jwunderl](https://forum.makecode.com/u/jwunderl)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 7:43am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/help-on-diver-game/3640/3 "2020-09-26T07:43:13Z")
Great art, I love the main characters animations! For the plants interaction, these two parts of the code aren’t working together: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/makecode/original/2X/a/ab6b06ac86cdbe8e6b531d0b8e5921511be468cb.png) When you press the A button while on top of a plant it does trigger the event (you can try putting `destroy sprite otherSprite` in there to see it go away), but the animation isn’t showing up because the on game update is constantly resetting the image. You can add a boolean flag (like moving) that you start at the beginning of the animation and end at the end / after a 500ms pause, and then have the on game update image resetting’s if condition be `if not moving and not collecting`. Worth a note, Richard has an extension in the works to try and make animations for moving / etc simpler to achieve: [Animate vs Legacy in On Game Update](https://forum.makecode.com/t/animate-vs-legacy-in-on-game-update/3587/2) Re: Save point; these two portions aren’t working together: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/makecode/original/2X/e/e2e2d52c07ba600d5a35bd5f7290743edd060328.png) when you create the statue, you clear out the tile, so that tile doesn’t exist anymore and you won’t ever overlap it. Also, you probably don’t want that `ask save game?` in a while loop; it will keep asking again immediately until the player says no, so it looks like nothing is happening. Instead, you can do: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/makecode/original/2X/e/e3aed6cca7f61869770aeee635f354644ed24458.png) ---
**Author:** ![GameGod](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/gamegod/32/2756_2.png) [@GameGod](https://forum.makecode.com/u/GameGod)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 3:27pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/help-on-diver-game/3640/4 "2020-09-26T15:27:17Z")
Wow. Love the art so much. ---
**Author:** ![UnderwaterAstronaut](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/underwaterastronaut/32/2228_2.png) [@UnderwaterAstronaut](https://forum.makecode.com/u/UnderwaterAstronaut)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/help-on-diver-game/3640/5 "2020-09-26T15:50:28Z")
Thank you! I got the save function to work but how would you add a boolean flag at the beginning and end of the animations? ---
**Author:** ![UnderwaterAstronaut](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/underwaterastronaut/32/2228_2.png) [@UnderwaterAstronaut](https://forum.makecode.com/u/UnderwaterAstronaut)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 3:51pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/help-on-diver-game/3640/6 "2020-09-26T15:51:00Z")
Thank you! ❤ ---
**Author:** ![Dreadmask197](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/dreadmask197/32/10494_2.png) [@Dreadmask197](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Dreadmask197)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 4:19pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/help-on-diver-game/3640/7 "2020-09-26T16:19:44Z")
Yeah the art is very unique ---
**Author:** ![LcAtonal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/lcatonal/32/16800_2.png) [@LcAtonal](https://forum.makecode.com/u/LcAtonal)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 11:46pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/help-on-diver-game/3640/8 "2020-09-26T23:46:04Z")
The art is good ---
**Author:** ![jwunderl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/jwunderl/32/5308_2.png) [@jwunderl](https://forum.makecode.com/u/jwunderl)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 7:26pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/help-on-diver-game/3640/9 "2020-09-27T19:26:45Z")
In this case, the event is happening in a sprite overlap event, which makes it a bit easier. Overlap events between two sprites happen outside the game loop, so you can put a pause in that event without breaking the game. So you can do something like this: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/makecode/original/2X/f/f8f65855ae4b709f085b4f200f0af7c8b296f52b.png) (this also makes it so they can’t move while picking stuff up) In other events (e.g. sprite overlaps with tiles) this likely won’t work as the code will run immediately / block other things from running. In that case, you would want to use something like richards arcade-story extension to queue up things that will run separately. ---
**Author:** ![UnderwaterAstronaut](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/underwaterastronaut/32/2228_2.png) [@UnderwaterAstronaut](https://forum.makecode.com/u/UnderwaterAstronaut)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2020, 2:55pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/help-on-diver-game/3640/10 "2020-09-28T14:55:20Z")
thank you!! i’ll be updating if there is any problems! ---
**Author:** ![rosalyn.hale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9de053/32.png) [@rosalyn.hale](https://forum.makecode.com/u/rosalyn.hale)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2020, 8:29pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/help-on-diver-game/3640/11 "2020-10-01T20:29:30Z")
I can help. ---
**Author:** ![UnderwaterAstronaut](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/underwaterastronaut/32/2228_2.png) [@UnderwaterAstronaut](https://forum.makecode.com/u/UnderwaterAstronaut)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2020, 10:20pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/help-on-diver-game/3640/12 "2020-10-01T22:20:58Z")
thank you! I don’t need help now but later if I do then i’ll ask ---
**Author:** ![UnderwaterAstronaut](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/underwaterastronaut/32/2228_2.png) [@UnderwaterAstronaut](https://forum.makecode.com/u/UnderwaterAstronaut)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 2:19am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/help-on-diver-game/3640/13 "2020-11-03T02:19:49Z")
Because I realized I am going to make this game bigger and have many(?) tilemaps, instead of using if statements to insert the location like before, I thought of using arrays of locations with the tilemap extension. The thing is, I don’t know arrays that well and I don’t know how to make the code short while having many many tilemaps. Does anyone know what to do? ---
**Author:** ![Darkfeind](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/darkfeind/32/2576_2.png) [@Darkfeind](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Darkfeind)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 9:51pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/help-on-diver-game/3640/14 "2020-11-17T21:51:55Z")
Can I maybe help? ---
**Author:** ![UnderwaterAstronaut](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/underwaterastronaut/32/2228_2.png) [@UnderwaterAstronaut](https://forum.makecode.com/u/UnderwaterAstronaut)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 10:57pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/help-on-diver-game/3640/15 "2020-11-17T22:57:59Z")
Yes please ---
**Author:** ![LcAtonal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/lcatonal/32/16800_2.png) [@LcAtonal](https://forum.makecode.com/u/LcAtonal)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 6:27am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/help-on-diver-game/3640/16 "2020-11-18T06:27:04Z")
Just male a few and put that it will show random tilemaps. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/kat/32/2596_2.png) [@Kat](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 1:35pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/help-on-diver-game/3640/17 "2020-11-18T13:35:36Z")
> [@LcAtonal](#): > > male Do you possibly mean make? ---
**Author:** ![Dreadmask197](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/dreadmask197/32/10494_2.png) [@Dreadmask197](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Dreadmask197)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 1:45pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/help-on-diver-game/3640/18 "2020-11-18T13:45:22Z")
The letter “K” and letter “L” are right next to each other. That’s why ---
**Author:** ![LcAtonal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/lcatonal/32/16800_2.png) [@LcAtonal](https://forum.makecode.com/u/LcAtonal)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 1:46pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/help-on-diver-game/3640/19 "2020-11-18T13:46:37Z")
Make i mean ---
**Author:** ![UnderwaterAstronaut](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/underwaterastronaut/32/2228_2.png) [@UnderwaterAstronaut](https://forum.makecode.com/u/UnderwaterAstronaut)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 4:29pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/help-on-diver-game/3640/20 "2020-11-18T16:29:46Z")
Yeah but how would the code be short? cause I don’t want the tilemaps to be random [Next page](https://forum.makecode.com/t/help-on-diver-game/3640.md?page=2)