How to make actions speed up over time

Hi Guys

I am putting together a "Whack a Mole" game.

How would i get the moles to pop up faster and faster as time goes on.

thanks for your help

Lprez: you can put an action like "Animation : setSpeed", run by the system every X seconds.

And, by the wait, are you sure the image of your avatar is appropriate on a forum where underage children can read the various pages ? (it doesn't bother me, but it can offend some people...)

Depends on how you currently have it set up. Please be a little more specific and we can help you out.

If you're using every x seconds, replace x with a value that is subtracted from every now and then (but make sure it stops at some point; can't have moles popping up every millisecond!)

Pode, sorry about the avatar, I have not manually put it on here, I play Battlefield 3 and they also use Gravatar,(as Scirra do) and it has picked up my email address for this forum and auto selected that avatar.

I havedeleted it from my Gravatar account so just need it to disappear from my profile here.

huge apologies for that, it's not something I wouldhave put in this forum.

thx for the responses also guys.

Tokinsom

Currently I have no mechanics in place.

I have 12 moles which I need to spawn randomly but as the score gets higher and higher I wanted the spawn rates to speed up to make it more difficult.

I hope this helps.

Hi Guys, i wanted to revisit this and put a little bit more of an explanation on as it is stumping me at the moment.

I have 12 holes for 12 moles.

I want the moles to pop up randomly.

as times passes i want the spawning to become faster and faster.

1. do i start 1 mole off then use a system > wait for the others

2. do i just use system > every x seconds and use random(x-xx)

to increase the spawn rate over time (sorry guys but did not really understand your advice in previous posts) what would i need to do.

many thanks for your help

Example capx.

Thank you for that.

my background has 12 holes, can I use 1 mole sprite and have it randomly spawn at the various x,y co-oridinates for example.

system > create object>mole on layer 0 at random 91,36, random 34,36 etc etc.

or should i use 12 mole sprites to spawn at their own set co-ordinates.

many thanks

Whack-a-mole Advanced.

You gotta love C2

you sir, are a legend

Hi! Long time ago yet i got a question about this!

I had alot of help from the "Whack-a-mole Advanced"!

Though i have a question. Is there any way to check if a "hole" is filled? And if yet do not spawn a new mole there?

Thanks in advance!

Allardje: Whack-a-mole-Advanced-Plus

You sir, are still a legend :)

Thanks alot!

Though it did not work 100%. But yet, i just needed to know the technique behind it.

What i had to do was to change the boolean to a value and instead of false and true i had to use 0 and 1. This way i could compare the values.

Again. It works like a charm now! Kudos!