# Help with my Grade 3/4 Students and their games!

**URL:** <https://forum.makecode.com/t/help-with-my-grade-3-4-students-and-their-games/18147>\
**Category:** Arcade\
**Created:** [February 24, 2023, 6:00pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/help-with-my-grade-3-4-students-and-their-games/18147 "2023-02-24T18:00:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![jmods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@jmods](https://forum.makecode.com/u/jmods)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2023, 6:00pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/help-with-my-grade-3-4-students-and-their-games/18147/1 "2023-02-24T18:00:40Z")

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Hi, Students are creating their games and I help them with what I can and also check tutorials etc but somethings I don’t know…

My Grade 4 student followed a tutorial to create this:

[https://arcade.makecode.com/S01213-85535-30603-82062](https://arcade.makecode.com/S01213-85535-30603-82062)

1. His character collects AJ (Alien Juice) but when the sprite touches the reward it adds 1 point multiple times so everytime it’s touching it’s adding points.

I think I did a fix in the past adding a pause after the change score by 1 but here it pauses the whole thing…

1. Another thing is it’s an auto side scroller - Is there an easy way to add control - Being able to move the character and make it more of a platformer?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![jmods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@jmods](https://forum.makecode.com/u/jmods)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 6:18pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/help-with-my-grade-3-4-students-and-their-games/18147/2 "2023-02-27T18:18:40Z")

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He also wants the character to collect Alien Juice - What would be the SIMPLEST way to do this - Is there a tutorial?

I have found this that I am going to share with him…[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP\_DTEG0P-A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP_DTEG0P-A)

He is in Grade 4 - Would this be the simplest way of doing it? He wants to collect the item and add a score and destroy it.
