lamar How is your experience with teaching C2? How are the students reacted to the event-based programming?

I am retired from teaching now and did not teach a course on C2.

My comment is based on teaching other programming and game design courses but I would do it the same way.

I think C2 is a good engine to teach because the events are laid out logically.

Having been a teacher in treatment centers for many years I devised interesting ways to test that gave students with different ways of thinking a way to prove their skills and competency besides a written test.

For a test on C2 competency I would create a simple game scenario that uses say 6 major event components that all students should know how to use and then they have to write the script events and create a working game/model.

A second test would be to place deliberate errors in an event script that they must identify and fix and final test would be an ongoing demonstration of their competency in designing their own working game/model.

Based on those tests you should be able to give a letter grade 50% competence C, 75% B and above 90% an A.

I hate letter grades but they are still required by most schools.

Is that arrow in the circle a sprite?

If so are collisions for that sprite turned on?

What do you want the score to do when you slow down or stop?

Are you using physics by any chance?

Physics and solids do not work together.

I am setting up a game arcade website and I used to play and host a lot of pool and game tournaments so I am thinking of hosting skill game tournament once a month on my website using some of my own skill games like pinball but also considering other skill games in the arcade.

You would get one week notification of what game is chosen for the tournament so you can practice on that game and then tournament play starts on Saturday and runs to Sunday and leader board would open and close after 48 hours. You can play as often as you want and high score at end of tourney would be announced and a prize rewarded.

Games like pinball, darts, pool, golf or any games requiring skill not luck could be used.

No fee to enter but I may consider a year end cash tourney on a popular skill game.

Prizes would be something like a T-shirt, Amazon gift card or something of that nature.

As long as these are skill games there is no problem with the US gaming commission and I have already checked that.

So what do you think and I am open to feedback and suggestions?

You can check out the website in the link in my signature.

Think I've finally found the root problem. Yandex search bot was going berserk and indexing ~10,000 pages an hour on the site which is way too many. This was causing an effective DDOS which made pages unresponsive. Am in the process of stopping them crawling, hopefully everything gets more stable going forwards now.

Right on Tom!

You probably already know this stuff but I did a little research and this is a great article explaining how to block certain web crawlers like Yandex that might help.

https://searchenginewatch.com/sew/news/2067357/bye-bye-crawler-blocking-parasites

On the second suggestion you tagged Tam instead of Tom

Ooops! Thanks I will fix it.

Sounds like a good idea if you can keep cheaters at bay.

It will be on my own games so no way to cheat the score. Leaderboard will be set up day of tourney and locked after tourney ends. You can play the game as many times as you want but only high score counts.

I used to play and host lots of pool tournaments and card tournaments.

Burvey

Once I get the website set up and my games all set up I want to start hosting tournaments for prizes. Highest score for a game over the weekend wins a prize. Something simple like a T-shirt or gift card to Amazon.

The Scirra arcade works well for that to keep track of high scores and I can create a leader board for just a set time for a certain game.

I think it will be popular!

Hi Lamar,

Thanks for the reply. Setting the angle to no means that it doesn't rotate at all, which is not what I'm after. I want it to rotate, using 360 smooth, and then to stay facing the angle it's in when I let go of the keys. Instead, it just returns to the nearest 90 degree angle.

Is there a way to move in 360 degrees, but keep that angle when stopped please ?

Thanks.

I should have asked you if it is a car like sprite.

See ROJOhound comment. That should take care of it.

Nice. I'm planning on uploading a demo or two soon. I'll run them by you when the time comes. I'm polishing currently.

Sounds good Burvey!

It will be a few days before I start promoting the website. Still adding games and features. If you have ideas for the website let me know.

If it takes off like my other websites and videos your games should get a lot of free exposure.