# Why is it going strait to Level 2?

**URL:** <https://forum.makecode.com/t/why-is-it-going-strait-to-level-2/4290>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [November 5, 2020, 9:21pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/why-is-it-going-strait-to-level-2/4290 "2020-11-05T21:21:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 18\
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**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 17, 2020, 2:30pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/why-is-it-going-strait-to-level-2/4290/21 "2020-11-17T14:30:04Z")

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is it the 8x8 .ts file?

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**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 17, 2020, 2:34pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/why-is-it-going-strait-to-level-2/4290/22 "2020-11-17T14:34:41Z")

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Never mind. It looks like an update more than an extension.

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**Author:** ![UnsignedArduino](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/unsignedarduino/32/592_2.png) [@UnsignedArduino](https://forum.makecode.com/u/UnsignedArduino)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 2:41pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/why-is-it-going-strait-to-level-2/4290/23 "2020-11-17T14:41:00Z")

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It’s an extension that allows you to set a 8x8 tilemap in blocks.

I just can’t find it. 😕

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**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 17, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/why-is-it-going-strait-to-level-2/4290/24 "2020-11-17T14:49:04Z")

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Who made it? How did you get it @GameGod?

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**Author:** ![UnsignedArduino](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/unsignedarduino/32/592_2.png) [@UnsignedArduino](https://forum.makecode.com/u/UnsignedArduino)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/why-is-it-going-strait-to-level-2/4290/25 "2020-11-17T14:49:59Z")

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Found it!

> **[riknoll/small-tilemaps](https://github.com/riknoll/small-tilemaps)**
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> Adds small tilemaps. Contribute to riknoll/small-tilemaps development by creating an account on GitHub.

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**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 17, 2020, 2:52pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/why-is-it-going-strait-to-level-2/4290/26 "2020-11-17T14:52:09Z")

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I forgot how to search things up on GitHub

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**Author:** ![UnsignedArduino](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/unsignedarduino/32/592_2.png) [@UnsignedArduino](https://forum.makecode.com/u/UnsignedArduino)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/why-is-it-going-strait-to-level-2/4290/27 "2020-11-17T14:56:23Z")

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![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/makecode/original/2X/2/279b0f0ea89502ffb63000c20f569bb779f858e0.png)  

> **[GitHub: Where the world builds software](https://github.com/)**
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> GitHub is where over 50 million developers shape the future of software, together. Contribute to the open source community, manage your Git repositories, review code like a pro, track bugs and feat...

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**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 17, 2020, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/why-is-it-going-strait-to-level-2/4290/28 "2020-11-17T14:58:58Z")

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Oh thank god

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**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 17, 2020, 3:01pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/why-is-it-going-strait-to-level-2/4290/29 "2020-11-17T15:01:24Z")

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I’m looking around Github and there is literally nothing I see that I can do. Is it just to save games?

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**Author:** ![UnsignedArduino](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/unsignedarduino/32/592_2.png) [@UnsignedArduino](https://forum.makecode.com/u/UnsignedArduino)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 3:03pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/why-is-it-going-strait-to-level-2/4290/30 "2020-11-17T15:03:02Z")

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Oooooooooooooo…Github is used to save your skin when you mess up your code so badly that undo can’t fix it.

Just kidding, but it actually does do that too.

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**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 17, 2020, 3:04pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/why-is-it-going-strait-to-level-2/4290/31 "2020-11-17T15:04:45Z")

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So what do you do on it? Just save your games so they won’t be lost and they also help you debug some stuff as well? This is all very confusing for me…

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**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:** [November 17, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/why-is-it-going-strait-to-level-2/4290/32 "2020-11-17T15:13:28Z")

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I just copy and pasted the 8x8 code.

> [@Dreadmask197](#):
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> is it the 8x8 .ts file?

Yes.

I didn’t use an extension.

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**Author:** ![AlexK](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/alexk/32/33339_2.png) [@AlexK](https://forum.makecode.com/u/AlexK)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 3:14pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/why-is-it-going-strait-to-level-2/4290/33 "2020-11-17T15:14:49Z")

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Thanks for taking up the hunt, @UnsignedArduino!

@Dreadmask197: GitHub considers itself a “community where more than 50 million\* people learn, share, and work together to build software.”[1] GitHub, along with other communities like BitBucket and Azure DevOps Services, is a service that people use to store and to share code. For example, the MakeCode team stores and works together on the code for MakeCode Arcade at GitHub. ([https://github.com/microsoft/pxt-arcade](https://github.com/microsoft/pxt-arcade))

MakeCode Arcade (and most of the other MakeCode editors now) also can use GitHub to store and collaborate on code. You can learn more in the MakeCode Arcade documentation ([https://arcade.makecode.com/github](https://arcade.makecode.com/github)).

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[1] [https://github.com/about](https://github.com/about)

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**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 17, 2020, 3:17pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/why-is-it-going-strait-to-level-2/4290/34 "2020-11-17T15:17:45Z")

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So you can store code so it won’t be lost (which I don’t know how to do) and you can share code with debug as well (which I don’t know how to do that either,) but it sounds cool. I’ve had an account since August I think and still have no idea how to use it.

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**Author:** ![AlexK](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/alexk/32/33339_2.png) [@AlexK](https://forum.makecode.com/u/AlexK)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/why-is-it-going-strait-to-level-2/4290/35 "2020-11-17T15:22:42Z")

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@GameGod: I loaded the extension in MakeCode Arcade and it seems to be working properly. That may be why your game isn’t working correctly.

Delete the `8x8.ts` file from your project. (You’ll need to switch to JavaScript mode to do that.) Then, add the extension to your project. (Search for [https://github.com/riknoll/small-tilemaps](https://github.com/riknoll/small-tilemaps) in the list of extensions.) You may need to recreate your tile maps after adding the extension.

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**Author:** ![AlexK](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/alexk/32/33339_2.png) [@AlexK](https://forum.makecode.com/u/AlexK)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 3:25pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/why-is-it-going-strait-to-level-2/4290/36 "2020-11-17T15:25:36Z")

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@Dreadmask197 : I haven’t gotten to that part of my book yet, but I’ll see if I can put together a small tutorial on GitHub.

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**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 17, 2020, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/why-is-it-going-strait-to-level-2/4290/37 "2020-11-17T15:26:12Z")

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Thanks @AlexK! And Thanks @UnsignedArduino For helping me with github guys!

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**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:** [November 17, 2020, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/why-is-it-going-strait-to-level-2/4290/38 "2020-11-17T17:06:40Z")

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Thanks!

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