Week 3

5: Player battling NPC

Adding Player Attack

• Edit player script to add ability to attack
• When spacebar pressed, play animation “attackDown”
• Play game to see animation looping
• When animation has looped, play animation “walkDown”
• Play game to see animation stop
• Broadcast “player attack” so NPC can receive this message

6: NPC taking damage

Adding NPC damage animation

• Edit NPC script so it can receive message
• When I receive “player attack”
• Duplicate distance checker blocks (if distance from myself to player < 200)
• Create new function named “damaged”
• In damaged function, play animation “hitDown”
• Play test, see animation keeps looping
• When animation “hitDown” has looped, play animation “walkDown” playtest
• After animation starts playing, set alpha to 0.5
• In 500 ms set alpha to 1

7: NPC battling the player

NPC attacking player

• On the NPC script
• When touched get toucher
• If toucher has tag player
• New function “attack”
• In function definition: broadcast NPC attack
• Play animation attackDown
• When animation attackDown has looped, play animation walkDown

8: Player's health in interface

Player health variable and textfield

• Create number variable for Health, and textfield to display health
• When level starts, set number health to 100
• Create new textfield with text HP
• Set font colour of textfield
• Playtest

Snapping health textfield to camera

• Constantly,
• Set x position of instance textfield to camera x
• Set y position of instance textfield to camera y
• Playtest

Player receives attacks and animates

• When I receive “NPC attack”
• Play animation “hitDown”
• Set alpha to 0.5
• 500 ms, set alpha to 1
• When hitDown has looped, play walkDown
• Playtest

Player takes health damage

• When hitDown has looped, set number health to number health - 10
• Set text of textfield to
• (try to drag number health in, won’t work)
• Create text with
• Number health
• Text block “ HP”
• Playtest

9: Restart when player dies

Player death

• If health <= 0
• Restart level
• playtest

⚡ Bonus Activities ⚡

Bonus 3.1: NPCs with different strengths and weaknesses using Public Variables

Bonus 3.2: Variable NPC and Player damage with message values