I would also recommend these two tutorials (not by me )

https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/761/particle-demo-capx

and

https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/878/weather-effects-with-particles

I would still like to know if people now find swearing in games more offensive than the violence ?

Is this the sort of thing you are after ? Why is it not appropriate ? We can do something similar using nearest/touch/mouse but need to know what you are after.

"sword wielding girls" - now I don't object to everything

"plaster glitter glue over the rusting sump" - now that made me smile.

I don't think you can.

You can access the back button using the browser object but lock the phone...

Anyway it's because you are spawning your laser_beam on layer 0 (the background) rather than on layer 1 (your game layer). Using parallax is just confusing the position a bit - just change events 9 and 10 to Layer 1.

Here you go - updated capx.

Do you want it so you can touch near an object but still drag and drop that (one) object or do you want to be able to drag and drop several objects that are close to your touch ?

Here is a quick example of the first (the second is slightly more complicated)

Just thought - another way would be to just make the collision polygon bigger....

I think that in your working version you have the chosen image point of the tank outside the tanks collision polygon on your non working version the chosen image point is inside the polygon. Event 18 checks to see if there is a collision between the the tank and it's projectiles family and if so destroys the projectile. So the missile is being created and then instantly destroyed.

comment out event 18 in the non working version and see the result.

SayShhh - pointing out your youth on this "old and wrinkly" thread is not a good way to make friends !

I use the Wii to remind myself how fit I am - but it lies ...

If I understand you right - would you not be better just using a simple animation ?

(for example - no laughing at the graphics !)

If you are looking at something more complex then I think more information/capx is needed.

Can I also add, "Is it more normal to accept violence in games rather than swearing ?"

For example - "Gears of war" on xbox 360, I had only slight reservations about the "excessive" violence in it (chainsawing adversaries ?) but the swearing was (if I remember right) turned off almost straight away.

a quick test appears to show "no"