I hate this game. and what I mean is, I Love it! Brilliant work!

Made it to the credits!

The humor reminds me of portal.

The else is probably the way to go in this case, but you can also invert the mouse over event.

The majority of those games freeze up on me too. I was kinda wondering, I play everything in the world at sites like kongregate and armorgames and such with no issues...

you could do it on destroyed, just add another condition that checks which side of the screen it's on. You could also add the point as soon as it passes the paddle but before it gets to the edge of the screen (with a "trigger once while true" to keep it from counting continuously).. and many, many other ways!

if there's an x and a y, that's always going to be a position. You've just got the wrong action, you're looking for simply "set angle" as opposed to "set angle toward position". then random (360) will work as you intended.

Keep going! You'll get the hang of it.

That's why I suggest doing lots of tutorials. They may not seem like anything you plan on doing, and there's a good chance you won't need exactly what they teach, but they'll get you thinking like a programmer.

no built in expression that I'm aware of, but x^(1/3) oughta do it..

wait.. spritebox and sprite are two different things, eh?

not sure what you're up to there, but why not put the variable on the sprite instead of the spritebox?

got a .capx we can look at? I feel like this should work, unless I'm missing something..

so the exported html, then?

it used to be very simple in dropbox (until the end of last year, i believe) and drive (until like 2 weeks ago), but they seem to have done away with this feature, so now you're down to just any regular webhosting, or the scirra arcade, I guess..

and this forums is like that! people always replying and helping. One of C2's best features..

x < -5 will add the score every tick that x < -5, which is why sometimes more than 1 point is added.

having destroy outside layout on the ball also contradicts using numbers outside the layout (-5, 805) to set the score, which is why sometimes no points are added.

The OCD in me also wants you to know that you're setting the ball's angle to a random position x(0-360), y(0-360) which is a position, not an angle, which is why the ball always starts facing in the same general direction.

and to suggest reading tutorials. lots of them.

You just need a place to store your capxs? not actual exported games?

If so, then any of those services should be fine for your purposes.

You used to could run exported html games from drive and dropbox, but that has changed recently.

Thank you Ashley I had read that tutorial and had just gotten to where I had confused myself.

I finally sort of understood it, and the way you just explained nails it down for me.

Thanks!

This is probably where litetween comes in handy. heh..

Quickest way that comes to mind:

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