I'm confused by Booleans!

I'm not understanding how to implement this info with what I posted.

All your events run on every tick (repeated 60 times per second or even more). What's even worse is that you are using "Wait" action in such events. This means that the delayed actions will continue to run for 1 second even after the condition has become false, changing variables, stopping audio, changing animations. This will very likely break your game!

All these checks can and should be performed in the same event where the hungryScore is changed - simply add sub-events. Then you won't even need that boolean.

// Main event
Character on collision with Food: Subtract 1 from hungryScore

 // Sub-events
 If hungryScore=1 : do this
 Else If hungryScore=2 : do some other thing
 Else If hungryScore=3 : do something else

Just sent you a few coffee's thank you for all your help.

I think I'm following you a little bit.

In this part of the game there are four foods (Cheese, Cookie, Sushi,Roll). I can make them one item with four animation frames and call that food. If you suggest that. But then I run into the issue of when the 'food' collides with the mouth resetting it it and having four different animation frames moving back to the original point they were dragged from.

I have an invisible sprite called 'mouth' when the 'food' sprite collides then add 4 (full health) to the health variable called "hungryscore".

Then set the health bar sprite to full animation frame 4.

And make the character hungry animation invisible and turn back on the character neutral animation.

I have a system every 1 second subtract 1 from the "hungryscore"

When hungryscore is <=0

Set the health bar sprite to empty animation frame 0.

Turn off the character neutral animation

Turn on the character hungry animation.

I hope I'm explaining it clearly apologies if I'm not.

Here's a video demonstrating how it works now.

youtu.be/KNX3YaQw28o

I'd love to simplify the code I'm trying to get my skill level and understanding up to the task.

Here is a link to the file:

drive.google.com/file/d/1txTu26urW49n5ldZIVjTErcfy7xy9WL8/view

Video looks ok, file looks ok. What is the issue ? If your problem is now that you want to simplify the code you can get rid of the repeating food events by putting food in a Family, then you just have one set of events that use the family object, will apply to all food.

I swapped out your event for family and it was fine, did you add the wrong cheese object to the family?

Yeah, many of the events could be optimized with families and functions. And you still have way too many events that run on every tick. It must be a nightmare to debug.

Here is how you can optimize eating event - add all food sprites to a family. Move DragAndDrop behavior to the family level. Add burpAmount and fartAmount variables to the family. You can specify different values for each food type in these variables.

Then you could have a single event for eating. Notice that the BURP and FART checks are nested under the main event and are not performed on every tick.