compare the mouse position to the player position.

if you really want to rotate the sprite just set it's angle : angle(sprite.x,sprite.y,mouse.x,mouse.y)

if you want to mirror the sprite depending on mouse.x

system compare two values: mouse.x > player.x

if you only want to do it while moving add a condition for is moving and set the animation based on the destination.

Everything is possible, but because it's unclear to me what you are expecting I'll leave it at these three examples.

There is a move to mouse example when you click new project in Construct 2, but you could also use the third party plugin MoveTo you can find in the plugin section of this forum. A third way is using lerp to interpolate between the two positions, but this takes some coding to figure out, so because you seem to be new to construct I would recommend option one or two..

Because you are referring to lucasarts you probably want to scale the sprite too.

Here's a simple example of how to do that:

index.html

And here's the capx

distance-scale.capx

I've used scale, but you could also use width and height, size..

The event you made checks if there is a sprite that has a boolean stopped is true and stops all sprites if so.

This is because in this event you haven't picked a sprite so all actions will be performed on all sprites.

You could set the sprite to stop as a subevent of the collision event, for that certainly picks the right sprite, or you could change the event that stops the motion into picking.

Using a for each sprite would work..

Pick by evaluate would probably be better.

Like it says. It can be hard.

This is because there are so many characters in those languages the spritesheet will become immensely big.

If you are aware of the limitations, using spritefont shouldn't be a problem. I'ts very unlikely you'll be using all japanese characters in your game, so if you limit the spritefont to the characters you will use, it's size won't be enormous.

The problem will obviously be, knowing which characters you use in your game.

The bottom line is, yes, you can use the sprite-font, but try to only convert the characters you actually use in your game.

on touched pick top instance.

easiest way is

on button pushed - set timescale to 1-timescale

this way the button toggles between (1-1) = 0 and (1-0) = 1

I can't promise you to be very quick with answering, I have a busy few days, but ofcourse I will have a look if you give me the link..

system pick by comparison.

If I set red to 255, instead of a gray box I get a white box.

I guess you should map the values to the 0-255 range

I found this example on the forum:

(x - in_min) * (out_max - out_min) / (in_max - in_min) + out_min

which would translate for blue and green to:

(loopindex - 0) * (255 - 0) / (1280 - 0) + 0

or int(loopindex*255/1280)

Ok, this gives some interesting colour transitions when changing the value of red, but nothing close to the red and black square you show..

Guess I'm making a mistake..

As I said, by simplifying the game, you have simplified the first problem.

The problem will become increasingly more difficult to solve when there are more pieces.

I'm not even sure if it is possible to create one solution that will solve your issue for every quantity of pieces, or if it will have to be adjusted every time the quantity of pieces changes.

Thre are people on this forum who could wrap their head around this problem for sure, so I hope they find this topic.

What kind of objects would you want to create?

if it's a straight object like a platform, you could probably just use the start and endpoint of drawing to create the object from start untill endpoint.

If the object needs to be tilted in the direction you can use set angle towards endpoint.

If you want to create more complex objects you'd need to have some kind of shape recognition, this will be harder to achieve, but I've seen a third party plugin that does just that.

You could discard the global variable actually:

call function"enemycreate"(choose(1,2),screen.x,screen.y)

on function"enemycreate"

-compare two values : param(0)=1 - family1 actions

-compare two values : param(0)=2 - family2 actions