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• • Chris PlaysOldGames
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  • 30 Oct, 2015
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  That is the most annoying looking game I have seen in a long time... I would break my phone.

  I will answer your generic question with a generic answer: Download Construct2, go through the tutorials, download and reconstruct the Flappy Bird template, and then ask specific questions here in the forums as you have specific problems arise in your build.

• • Chris PlaysOldGames
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  Ah, thanks for the memory refresh, I guess I put it in the root so I wouldn't loose it.

• • Chris PlaysOldGames
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  Make sure the license.txt file is in the root folder with your construct2 exe when you select it when prompted. I dont believe you can specify a path.. can't remember.

• • Chris PlaysOldGames
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  If you use the default button as a button you can't without using LittleStain's method, if you set it enabled but invisible it is still not accessible.

  However, If you use a sprite as a button you can set its opacity to 0 and use an on-mouse click type event and it works as you are wanting.

• • Chris PlaysOldGames
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  Here is a trivia template by James Quick, a Microsoft Technical Evangelist.

  You might be able to learn from it, and its free.

  James Quick's GitHub: Click the item you want and select "Raw" to download.

  https://github.com/jamesqquick/Construct-2/tree/e9f155ff7527f724e5e558893c0c4f5b4568badd/Game%20Templates

• • Chris PlaysOldGames
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  • 28 Oct, 2015
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  If the instances are at a standard distance.

  Hack it!

  1. Create a sprite shape that overlaps everything you want selected (sounds like a circle would do), make its opacity 50 for ease of use.

  2. Set it to invisible by default (left side properties panel).

  3. Spawn it at your selected sprites center image point when the sprite is selected.

  4. Do an On-overlapping check to make all adjacent sprites react.

  5. Destroy circle selector when done.

  I use this for my turn based example https://www.scirra.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=118081

• • Chris PlaysOldGames
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  every-x-second/set sprite.width-5

• • Chris PlaysOldGames
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  Hack:

  1. Create a circle sprite the size of your explosion radius and set its opacity to 50 for ease of use.

  2. Set it to invisible by default (left side properties).

  3. Spawn it at an image point center of the sprite "bomb" that goes off.

  4. Do Is-overlapping check and destroy anything is touches that needs to be kilt.

  5. Destroy radius sprite.

  Your game making has just been hacked!

• • Chris PlaysOldGames
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  • 28 Oct, 2015
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  You obviously feeding the variable some trash somewhere. Make sure you initialize the variable when the game starts so it doesn't carry old data (in on start event yourVar=0). Yes, I know it gets set 0 when you make it but I have ran into issues when reloading game w/o restarting where I expected it to 0 and it didn't... so I always 0 my important ones On Start now.

  Second go through every event and action where you reference the variable and make sure its logical (the search in events makes this easy but might be a pro thing).

  If its still wonky they make a debug textbox on your screen and have it show variable every tick, you might spot where its going sideways then.

• • Chris PlaysOldGames
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  Search forum, tutorials, and manual for instance picking.

  Sounds like you need to make sure your "picking" the right instances.

• • Chris PlaysOldGames
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  • 28 Oct, 2015
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  So based on your example by the 4th click the gVariable would equal 7?

  If instead it should be 1,2,3,1,2,3 and not 1,3,6,7 then you would use a on click compare event starting with 0.

  On-click/compare gVar=0/set gVar 1, gVar=1 set 2, gVar=2 set 3, else gVar>2 set 1.

• • Chris PlaysOldGames
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  • 28 Oct, 2015
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  Like a balloon... you could use set scale incrementally over x seconds then hide and spawn pieces (several ways to do this).

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• • Chris PlaysOldGames
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  • 27 Oct, 2015
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  Checkpoints

  Increment an instance checkpoint variable for each racer and only increment checkpoints as last was valid and lapCount for racer if final checkpoint was valid.

• • Chris PlaysOldGames
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  • 27 Oct, 2015
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  Here is a function way:

  https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bx-ufu2WID53UE9VMlJjRnMyTlk

• • Chris PlaysOldGames
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  • 27 Oct, 2015
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  That looks exactly like how mine looked when I tested it this morning if the sprite-B was also evented to move to sprite-A until overlap if no buttons are pressed...