Spawning Off Screen

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I’ve been trying to recreate all of the Super Mario bros and need an answer on making enemies spawn off screen. Every time I run the program the enemies fall into a hole and I don’t want them to spawn until i reach a point in a level.

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For making them spawn at a certain point in the level would something like forever if player x is a certain value spawn the enemies thats just an idea though

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You could make invisible tile locations that act as checkpoints and once you reach it spawns it in just remember to name your tile

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if you are using code that places an enemy on every tile of a certain kind, you can repeatedly check whether or not that tile is close to your player and only spawn an enemy when they are. Sort of like this:
Forever:
For element (value) of (array of all ( enemySpawnerTile) locations):
If ((value) row) - (tilemap location of (mySprite) < (40)):
(Code for summoning the enemy)
(Place (EmptyTileOrSomething) at (tilemap location of (my enemy))

Sorry for the unreadability of that, but this is (theoretically) the code for checking if a tile is less than 40 blocks to the right of the player and spawning the enemy if it is. (maybe don’t take my word for this I didn’t test it)
You can modify the code to also check distance upwards and stuff and change the (40) to whatever you want. I hope this makes sense!

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I figured I should make a more readable version of that. Also, that code would not work at all I did that math wrong. Here is a better version:

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maybe make a sprite with the height of 120 and make it to the right of the screen, so whenever it touches a tile a goomba or whatever will spawn at that tile location, i hope this makes sense XD

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Thank you. Ive decided to use this one. Here is the unfinished game: https://arcade.makecode.com/S35243-10831-75287-88765

If there is anything I need to change please say so.

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So i got a new problem.

Now that I’ve been working on the game a a lot I’ve recently started working on the sub areas. For some odd reason when you go in to the 4th pipe and exit it, if you are carrying a power up you go back to being small Mario. Here is the game to show you what I’m talking about: https://arcade.makecode.com/S35243-10831-75287-88765