how about using a counter and when the player dies set the counter to say 100 or something and then have another event that always subtracts 1 as long as that counter is greater than 0 and one more event that will run only if the counter is 0 and if the player is dead so something like this:

(note: for player dies, you can use a variable to track the status or something or some other means to identifying that the player has died)

counter > 0

:subtract 1

player dies

:set counter to 100

counter = 0

player dead

: do whatever you want to do

Also, is the tank supposed to sit for a few seconds and then go flying off the top of the screen? It's done that a couple times, much to my confusion.

LMAO! i want to know the answer to that as well!

ah yes, that's the message i get every time i try to play test after running the above python code with python installed. rebooting is the only way to get around it, apparently.

so i tried installing python just to see what would happen and now it doesn't give me any message about a missing module but now i get this message:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "<string>", line 5, in <module>

file "<string>", line 1, in bind

socket.error: (10048, 'Address already in use')

hmm, i don't know why but does the executable run properly?

http://www.mediafire.com/?iwzcjycz3y1

this version is a bit different, i've added wall climbing and jumping but the climbing isn't complete yet

what kind of errors is construct giving you? is it because of my cap file?

curious, will we be able to program sockets in python with the current version of construct?

Click for screenshot (edit by Ashley: linked to prevent page widening)

i like the soft look

wow, never realized how nice pixel shader effects could make everything look until now! the controls aren't odd at all. things i noticed:

• player can't shoot through platforms, good

• enemy can shoot through platforms, not fair and not good! =P

for the passing through walls, check out how i check and correct collisions in the cpm that i posted:

ttp://www.scirra.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=613

it's for platform movement, but left and right movement can easily be translated to up and down movement.

i just noticed from typing it in manually, "socket" isn't available in the list on the right hand side of the editor

everything i copy and pasted is from this page

http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Python/Sockets-in-Python/1/

word for word, case for case

import socket

mySocket = socket.socket ( socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM )

mySocket.bind ( ( '', 2727 ) )

mySocket.listen ( 1 )

while True:

| channel, details = mySocket.accept()

| print 'We have opened a connection with', details

| print channel.recv ( 100 )

| channel.send ( 'Green-eyed monster.' )

| channel.close()

i tried copying and pasting this code from a tutorial into construct but i got this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "<string>", line 1, in module>

File "C:\Python25\lib\socket.py, line 45, in <module>

importError: No module named _socket

my guess is that the socket library isn't available but then again, i don't know very much about the python language so please help! i wanna get construct up and running online YESTERDAY! =P