thank you. I downloaded latest version. I can open it now, I will look and see what I can do with the example that you provided. it looks like you placed a predetermined path for the enemy sprite instead of a pathfinding to the sprite if I am looking at it correct?

— - Thank you I will mess around with the numbers and see what I come up with.

lennaert - At this point I only have the free version. It won't let me open the version you downloaded. I plan to buy the license but right now can't because was hurt at work about a month ago and workers comp checks have not come yet. I don't know if there is a way to save it in an older version. It says I have r163 and you have r164 if that helps. I do thank you very much for taking the time to help me.

I found construct 2 because I wanted to fill my day with something to do while off work hurt and my daughter likes the idea that I can make something for her to play.

I made a track game for my daughter and I am learning more and more as I mess around with C2 but I still have a lot of learning to do. I have it where my player is chased by an enemy around a race track that has power ups. As I go around the track the enemy gets close to me but won't ever catch me. It seems to be just trailing me. I will try to upload the game. Don't know if I exactly know how but will try.

What I need to know is why won't it catch me instead of just follow me.

Just wanted to update on what I found out. Since I am not in any way a programmer most of what you all said pretty much went over my head and I know that makes me sound like a noob but I do thank you all for trying to answer my question but I did keep looking and found a simple but effective way to fix the problem I think. I works so far and I will keep testing it but I figured I would post it here to show what I did to resolve the issue for now at least. I am writing this for those who like me know nothing about programming and maybe for those who do know programming this may help later on if they see someone else with a problem like this. I will keep testing it out but for now it seems to work.

Here is how it went for me.

player -> On collision with another object (Chose Power Up) -> (Add Action) Player -> (under 8direction) set max speed (I chose 1000)

->(Add Action)Power Up -> (under misc.) destroy

->(Add Action) System -> (Under Time) Wait (I chose 3 seconds)

->(Add Action)Player -> (Under 8direction) set max speed (I chose 200)

Thank you for the quick reply. Is there anyway that you know of to limit the duration of the power of for lets say 3 seconds. I will try to figure it out in the mean time.

Hello all. I am sorry to have to come here to ask but I can't find the answer and I have tried several different methods in games and can't get the object to change speeds.

I am trying to create a game for my daughter to play that she asked me to put together. It's a simple character race game and if player hits an object it changes speeds to go faster. So it's a power up basically. Here is what I have tried. In the events tab I placed it as if player -> on collision with power up -> player >under the set acceleration to lets say 1000 (I also have it so that when the player hits the power up it is destroyed)

So what I am trying to figure out is if I have to have the max speed on the player it self at 1000 or if I have to have it at lets say 200 and when it hits the power up it boosts up to 1000 but when I tried that it stays at a consistent speed.

I hope it's ok that I added a couple of photo's to explain what I described but they are below.

Thanks in advance for any help given.