Need help with defeating enemies in Platform game!

[SpiderDuckie]

Hi! I'm fairly new at Flash and I haven't much skills with creating a game. But I've managed to make a small demo of a game I'm trying to make. However there are a couple of problems with my coding that I just can't figure out.

• When my character MC is falling you can make him jump from thin air.
• Enemies don't die. I would like the enemies to get crushed under the Character's feet, just like in Mario games. But otherwise killing the Character if touched at any other point but the head.
• I'm using scenes as Level points but the hittest I've assigned for the character hitting the invisible object in-between the flags at the end of the level isn't making the scene switch.

Sorry for all of the problems but I need a lot of help! Can anyone here assist me?

Here's the link to the game since I can't upload it here.

http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/1/...at2%282%29.swf

http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/1/...at2%282%29.fla

[scheletro]

WOW thats a huge file, why?

Too much work on the game to have problems at tis time, you should add some pieces of code here for us to see, discuss and solve problems, nobody will download your game to correct it for you

Maybe we can start with the jumping problem when the character falls

[renderhjs]

the final SWF file is pretty big (3.5 MB!). Have a look in the library and from it´s select "unused times" and delete them.
Also try to resize all bitmaps (pixel images) in Photoshop or any other real bitmap editor (resizing in flash wont do) to their minimum size and reimport them or update them.

I agree some code snippetts are more inviting to help at first- if nothing helps there is always the option to download the FLA.

My guess is that you´ll end up with some hitTest method to check the collision with enemies. You could even check on sub- movieClips like head parts on that particular movieClip.

[SpiderDuckie]

Thanks for some ideas guys, I'll get back here with some coding snippets... I've got no code for the enemies so far. Only coding I have is the Character Code.

[SpiderDuckie]

Here is the entire code for the Char.

onClipEvent (load) {
jumping = true;
speed = 0;
maxmove = 15;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
jump = 0;
if (!_root.ground.hitTest(this._x, this._y, true) && !jumping) {
this._y += 6;
}
if (_root.dead) {
this.gotoAndStop("dead");
} else {
speed *= .85;
if (speed>0) {
dir = "right";
} else if (speed<0) {
dir = "left";
}
if (dir == "right" && !_root.leftblock.hitTest(this._x+20, this._y, true)) {
_root.score._x += speed;
_root.score2._x += speed;
_root.stage._x += speed;
_root.stage2._x += speed;
this._x += speed;
_root._x -= speed;
}
if (dir == "left" && !_root.rightblock.hitTest(this._x-20, this._y, true)) {
_root.score._x += speed;
_root.score2._x += speed;
_root.stage._x += speed;
_root.stage2._x += speed;
this._x += speed;
_root._x -= speed;
}
if (Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)) {
if (speed>-maxmove) {
speed--;
}
this.gotoAndPlay("run");
this._xscale = -85;
} else if (Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)) {
if (speed<maxmove) {
speed++;
}
this._xscale = 85;
this.gotoAndPlay("run");
} else if (speed<1 && speed>-1) {
speed = 0;
this.gotoAndStop("idle");
}
if (Key.isDown(Key.SPACE) && !jumping) {
jumping = true;
}
if (jumping) {
this.gotoAndStop("jump");
this._y -= jump;
jump -= .5;
if (jump<0) {
falling = true;
}
if (jump<-15) {
jump = -15;
}
}
if (_root.ground.hitTest(this._x, this._y, true) && falling) {
jump = 12;
jumping = false;
falling = false;
}
}
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
i = 0;
j = 20;
// lets say if your ground instances only go up to ground5
for (i=0; i<j; i++) {
// executes this statement over and over until i < j is false by increasing i by one
if (_root["ground"+i].hitTest(this._x, this._y, true) && falling) {
// ground+i is now grounds 1-5
jump = 12;
jumping = false;
falling = false;
}
}
}