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• • brunopalermo
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  Some ways of doing it:

  1. Have all images as frames of a single sprite and set the frame to changeAmount - 1 (0 for 1, 1 for 2, etc).

  2. Load external images and name the files according to the amount of change (1.png, 2.png, etc) then load changeAmount & ".png"

  Hope this helps. Cheers!

• • brunopalermo
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  Het mikewalton206!

  Here's an example with some functions that might be useful for your card game, including the updateHand, which sets position and angle to each card on the player's hand according to the amount of cards and the player hand area.

  https://www.dropbox.com/s/anbtxlrdk2n1l ... .capx?dl=1

  Every function has a help text so you can figure out how it works.

  Hope this helps. Cheers!

• • brunopalermo
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  Hey Importuno!

  You just have to save two values instead of one. As I understand you already save the scores to a high score table (by whatever method you use), so, instead, you'd save two values, the scores and player names.

  If you use a one-dimensional array to save the highscores (like highscores = [100000, 80000, 60000, 40000, 20000]), you should now use a two-dimensional array (like highscores = [[100000, "IMP"], [80000, "BP"], [60000, "DOP"], [40000, "ASH"], [20000, "NWB"]]).

  Regarding the limitation of length, you could use a TextBox object, which already alows players to type using their mobile phone's native keyboard, and limit its length by using a "On text changed" event like below:

  [TextBox  |  On text changed] [Set text to left(TextBox.Text, 3)]
  [/code:1mzstzzq]
  
  In this case I'm limiting the length to 3.
  
  Hope this helps. Cheers!

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• • brunopalermo
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  Ok. So what you need to store in the JSON? What information would you load from the JSON? Because maybe a JSON isn't even necessary... It would be better if you detailed what exactly are you trying to achieve, so we can try and help you.

• • brunopalermo
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  What do you want to load from the JSON? Coordinates? Zoom? Map type? What information would you be loading exactly?

• • brunopalermo
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  Hey 88tc88!

  I modified one of R0J0hound 's examples to do what I think you're trying to achieve.

  Enemies all have a 50% accuracy.

  https://www.dropbox.com/s/wgazg4t2q1fcf ... .capx?dl=1

  If you have any questions about the code, just let me know.

  Hope this helps. Cheers!

• • brunopalermo
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  Possible, yes, but not very efficient and prone to error.

• • brunopalermo
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  When you say "back and forth" do you mean zoom in and zoom out? Is that what you're trying to achieve? To zoom in and out while keeping the came centered?

• • brunopalermo
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  I'd recommend you use a dialogue timer to control these things, which is better than using several wait actions, and check the conditions on every timer step.

• • brunopalermo
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  Here's an example: https://www.dropbox.com/s/o73of1g3uqc4y ... .capx?dl=1

  Hope this helps. Cheers!

• • brunopalermo
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  Here's an example: https://www.dropbox.com/s/sdjm3mr2hspvl ... .capx?dl=1

  Both the typing speed and the complete text must be set by changing Text object variables as shown below:

  

  You can set them beforehand, like I did, or dynamically when creating the text, in which case I'd suggest a function for that.

  Hope this helps. Cheers!

• • brunopalermo
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  Use a timer instead.

  Cheers.

• • brunopalermo
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  LaurenceBedford

  I don't know how to do it myself. And I find it much easier to create a simple leaderboard with php and MySQL, even though I haven't got a lot of tech knowledge.

  DolyGamesCosmos

  Like dop2000 said, it's unlikely Firebase will go offline before your game does.

  Cheers!

• • brunopalermo
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  Yes, there are some ways of doing this. It would be good to know more details about what you're trying to achieve, so we can help you better.

  One way, for instance, is to create the portal at a random position (random(WindowWidth), random(WindowHeight)) and, then, having it spawn a random enemy from a family.

  Cheers.

• • brunopalermo
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  Yeah. PHP + MySQL is the easier, simpler, way of doing this. Go for it!