Currently filling in levels 13-19 with enemies, consumables and traps, the second boss AI has had some modifications and currently just need to refine health/damage amounts from the players character and the boss itself. Little snippet of the events used to create some of the AI.

The boss will teleport to a random location every 3.5 seconds, shoot ninja stars at the players character every second along with a basic enemy being spawned randomly every 5 seconds (they also throw ninja stars at you).

Had a little look and changed a few bits for you to go over. The problems you were facing were due to the layouts using the same event sheet, even though you added a new event sheets, you didn't change which event sheet the layout should use.

Changed the first event sheet and named it Engine. This is what will be powering the game. Include this on your level event sheets.

Also changed the way your setting the remaining critters and viruses. Simply added the number of each to update every tick. This way the games not relying on an action to update the remaining scores.

Also removed a couple of the virus total = 0 conditions as they were not needed. Game looks like a nice little project! Hope this quick revision helps.

drive.google.com/file/d/1eqeSoh9mGWXuk9hvt4UqfYsdrXyhZu3L/view

Hi guys,

Been working on this game for the last 3-4 months in my spare time. Shukuchi - translated from Japanese means "shrink earth method". This fast paced, high octane project will be available within the coming months on multiple different platforms, but primary Android and iOS.

Features:

Unique, high speed game-play.

Teleport system - instantly attack an enemy, or use it if you are stuck.

80 Normal levels.

8 Boss levels.

Predictive aim ninja star throwing system.

Achievements.

Current progress:

Main engine (this is always getting altered as the levels are created)

Life system - Complete

Teleport system - Complete

Ninja stars system - Complete

Enemy AI - Complete

Boss AI - 6/8 Complete

Graphics - Mostly complete (like the engine, always getting altered to give optimal performance)

Transitions - Complete

Scrolling level select - Complete

Pause w/ options - Complete

Shadows - Main character shadows complete, work in progress on enemies/boss'

Sounds - Base sounds in for testing purposes, will change nearer release to final sounds.

Levels - 12/80 release ready

Boss Levels 1/8 release ready

So, majority of the main stuff is out of the way, now I'm on the long slog of create all the levels. It seems to take around 3-4 hours to fully complete and finalise a level so I'm a long way off, but here's some screen shots as of some levels so far! I hope you enjoy.

Oh and a big thank you to dop2000 for helping me with the local storage and other bits and pieces along the way (plus some of his forum posts have been superb in aiding with some other things)!

A level in progress!

Teaser vid to come in the coming weeks!

I basically have 2 buttons, with 2 frames. soundOn with frame 0 and 1 and same for music. I use local storage to save the options, which saves the animation frame. Doing it this way allows for the button animation to be toggled on and off along with the sound and music.

I'm not too sure - by using preloads complete and setting the sound to -infinity db actually results in a better mute. Some events like Is playing/Is not playing results in only about 50% of sounds being muted. Set silent seems to be the only thing that actually stops the sounds 100% from playing but also silents the music.

Edit: The sound effect "add mute effect" also completely stops the sound, but leads to a massive frame rate drop on multiple clicks/touches

Dop, thanks for your reply again bud. Thanks for the pointers and yes I now see how I was telling the whole system to wait 10 seconds. After following your advise, and going over the manual countless times I am still stuck! All I can get it to do is to destroy the health button, spawn the animated sprite, the countdown lands at 1 and.. nothing. Numerous attempts, I'm obviously missing something!

No matter which was I do it, I cant get that animated sprite to spawn the health button again or destroy itself. I'll send some snippets that I've been trying (I've tried about 60 variations so far) but still cant get it to work, and not sure how I can do animated Sprite on animation finished as an event, unless inverting which as you'll see I've tried.

Also tried with a variables instead but came across some bumps there!