Thank you both for helping me out! Time to study your methods!

I get confused easily when there's so many global variables, hehe.

I really appreciate the explanations here and in the .capx file! Thanks again!

That's weird... does Dropbox change links frequently? Well, I copied & pasted the link again. Hope it works now!

... still waiting for help! ;)

Hi again!

I have multiple objects that spawn different bullets.

I would like to have the objects spawn a different bullet at random times, but I also wish to speed up the spawn rate as the score increases.

Here's an example of what I have now: Spawn.capx

The bullets are in a family so the objects spawn the family & I'm glad that it picks a random bullet to spawn.

However, putting the spawn-objects in a family doesn't work the way I want it to because they will all spawn at a random time together.

Please help me understand how to make it work! I am a noob that really wants to learn!

Many thanks!

The first thing I clicked on is the "Controls" button and then I had to refresh the game because there is no way back to the menu screen.

I also got stuck in between the walls somehow. See here!

I really like your color-changing platform idea though. Good luck!

;O I think I get it! Thanks for the explanations!

Sorry if it seems like I'm harrassing the forum with my noob questions. Hehe.

Ooh, the image point is taken into consideration in the expression as well.

So if it was on a grid, the object can only move between those two values?

(I'm a super noob, so I need the dumbed-down explanation. *blushes*)

So I'm trying to figure out what your expression means:

X Position: You limited the object's horizontal movement or position on the x-axis to a minimum of half of the object's width and a maximum of the layout's width subtracting half of the object's width.

Min: Half of object's width = 38

Max: Layout's width (640) - 38 = 602

The object's movement is limited to a minimum of 38 and a maximum of 602 on the x-axis?

Sorry if I don't really understand. ;X

Kyatric's method seems less intimidating than Yann's method, but both methods work! :D

I shall go look into what "clamp" is and where "self" is from.

Thanks for the help guys! Much appreciated!

I thought that by making the ship bound by layout, the ship wouldn't escape when the mouse is outside of the layout.

Am I supposed to bound the mouse position to the layout as well? I don't really know how to do that. How do I make sure that the spaceship will never leave the viewport? ;'(

I don't have any animation on the rocket ship and it's bound by layout.

I'm a bit frustrated that the enemy sprite clearly overlaps the ship, but it does not collide & destroy it just because it's in a secret safety corner. This heavily affects the gameplay because anyone can do this to cheat and add to the score.

Specs: Windows 7 + Firefox + r79.4

Example: OutofBounds.capx

Updated:

How do I make sure the spaceship will never leave the viewport when my mouse position is outside the game? ;'(

The ship image appears in the viewport, but the position is outside of it so the enemies won't collide and destroy it.

&Solved! (Removed the .capx file)