I have two questions
1: https://makecode.com/_Wme8d6MwDEkc. This is the link to a game I am working on. I have stumbled across an issue in this. As soon as the player leaves the main menu and enters the game, the entire game freezes. I know that this is because of the code that spawns enemies (yes the mySprite/Burgers are the enemies) is causing this issue, but I am unable to understand how to fix this in a quick manner.
2: Is the number entered for the vy / vx velocity of a sprite pixels per second? For example, if I enter 200 as the vx velocity of a projectile, will it travel 200 pixels per second or some other amount per second?
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- This is the problematic code:
sprites.onCreated(SpriteKind.Enemy, function (sprite) {
while (GameEnded == false) {
if (spriteutils.distanceBetween(player1, sprite) <= 40) {
sprite.follow(player1, 30)
}
})
The sprites.onCreated function will block until the code ends. Since this is a forever loop, it will pause eternally until it finishes, which is never. So put it in a timer.background:
sprites.onCreated(SpriteKind.Enemy, function (sprite) {
timer.background(function() {
while (!GameEnded) {
if (spriteutils.distanceBetween(player1, sprite) <= 40) {
sprite.follow(player1, 30)
} else {
sprite.follow(null)
}
pause(100)
}
})
})
And also, it seems like you want for the burgers to stop following once a certain distance away, so passing in null instead of a sprite will make it stop following it. And you also need to pause so that the game loop can update.
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1: I am not sure how to fix it but it must be a lot of lag! I have 0 fps… So probably too many enemies spawn!
2: Yes! It is pixel per second! As you can see it says pix/s (Pixel per second)
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Guessing what you want is,
https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/game-loop.html
Put detecting code in ‘update game’ of every game tick
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