Menu and Score

The menu is comprised of one image and two text boxes and looks as shown below.

The title was created in photoshop by me and it's colour matches that of the gears to give the player a sense of familiarity.

The menu is split up into 3 separate actions. The first action declares the variables of the menu shown below

private action MenuVar ()

This sets the variables for the Menu

◳ Title2 := ◳ board → create picture(✿ Title3)

◳ Title2 → hide

◳ InstructionsTitle := ◳ board → create text(100, 20, 40, "Instructions")

◳ InstructionsTitle → hide

◳ Instructions := ◳ board → create text(50, 50, 20, "Something has gone very wrong with the professors latest invention \nand Widget is caught in the middle.\nHelp Widget to avoid the flying gears by tapping the screen. \nTapping left will move him left and tapping right will move him right. \nGood Luck\n\n(Tap Screen to Start)\n")

◳ Instructions → hide

end action

The second action Menu sets the position and visability of the menu

private action Menu ()

This sets the positions and visibility of the menu. This is called in Main

◳ Title2 → set pos(◳ board → width / 2, 50)

◳ Title2 → set width(500)

◳ Title2 → show

◳ InstructionsTitle → set pos(◳ board → width / 2 - 20, 100)

◳ InstructionsTitle → show

◳ Instructions → set pos(125, 170)

◳ Instructions → show

end action

and the third action MenuHide hides the menu so it is not visible during the game

private action MenuHide ()

This hides the menu during the game

◳ Title2 → hide

◳ InstructionsTitle → hide

◳ Instructions → hide

◳ board → update on wall

end action

It was necessary to split the menu into three as they each need to be called at a separate time. All three are called in Main as shown below.

action main ()

◳ board := ♻ game → start

This game only has one life. This code turns off the life visibility as they are not required.

♻ game → set life visible(false)

This ensures that the characters don't fall off the top or bottom of the screen through the use of obstacles.

◳ board → create obstacle(0, 0, ◳ board → width, 0, 1)

◳ board → create obstacle(0, ◳ board → height, ◳ board → width, 0, 1)

▷ Backgrounds

▷ MenuVar

The stop variable is used to determine whether the sprite is to stop running. 1 = Run 0 = Stop

◳ Stop := 1

✿ Crash → play

This ensures that the game doesn't start until the board has been touched

while not ◳ board → touched do

▷ Menu

◳ board → update on wall

end while

▷ MGame

▷ MenuHide

This is where the rate of score increases it adds the value of scoreadd once every second

time → run every(1, perform)

where perform() is

♻ game → score := ♻ game → score + ◳ scoreadd

end

end action

The Mgame function as shown in main is a combination of all other elments of the game that was required in main. By placing these in a function it helped to condense the main and thus help the code to run more efficiently

Mgame looks as shown below

private action MGame ()

This is where the game information that runs in main is kept

◳ Gears := ◳ board → create sprite set

The 3 is the amount of gears that will spawn at any given time

▷ SpawnGears(3)

This sets the sprite sheet and it's grid

◳ SpriteSheet := ◳ board → create sprite sheet(✿ CharSheet6)

◳ SpriteSheet → set frame grid(3, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)

▷ Animations

This sets the score increase to 1

◳ scoreadd := 1

This sets the direction of the background (0 and 3 = No scrolling, 1 =Scroll Left, 2= Scroll Right

◳ Direction := 3

This sets the default score as well as set the position of the score display.

♻ game → set score(0)

◳ ScoreDisplay := ◳ board → create text(100, 20, 40, "Score: " ∥ ♻ game → score)

◳ ScoreDisplay → set pos(◳ board → width / 2, 0)

end action

The score is also visable in the Main and works to add a score once every second. The position of the score is declared in MGame. By default the score is set to 1 however when the Gear and the character collide this is set to 0 and therefore the score stops updating itself then.