arrow_back Splash! You Lose

In many platform games, the main character falls to their doom when the player loses.

In this video, you'll program your own losing condition.

To start, create a dangerous place to fall, like water or lava.

You could draw your dangerous place right on the game backdrop, but creating a new sprite makes it easier to position the danger element on the screen, edit it, and program it.

Click draw new sprite.

In this example, the dangerous place is a blue line that looks like water, but you can draw any kind of dangerous place you want.

Next, program something to happen if the character touches the dangerous place sprite.

Code the losing condition next to the winning condition to keep your code organized.

Click control and place an if statement inside your forever loop below the winning condition.

Go to sensing and drag out a touching block.

Tinch the value to the name of the dangerous sprite.

Next, add code inside the if statement to indicate that the player lost the game.

This example says you lose, and stops the rest of the program from running.

Add your own messaging code to program the losing condition for your game.

Be creative.

Now it's your turn.

Create a dangerous place sprite, then make something happen if the player's sprite touches the dangerous place sprite using if and touching blocks.