Making hearth on a plataform game

I'm doing a kind of plataform map, and now I need to make health (3 hearts, like Mario). I tried to do it with hittest but the hearts goes like crazy. Guess I need to make something like invulnerable or I don't know. What I want to do is three hearts, and, if the human touches a spike he loses a hearth.

Yeah, you need to use a hittest and then say something along these lines in your in your enterFrame function

Actionscript Code:

if(this.invincible)this.invincible--;
if(this.hitTest(spike) && !this.invincible){
    this.health-=1;
    this.invincible=15;
}

Basically, it just has a variable called "invincible" that constantly counts down until it hits 0 (then it stays there until you set it to something else). It will only make you lose health if a collision is detected AND invincible==0. Then, once you lose 1 health, you set invincible to 15, so it won't trigger another hitTest for another 15 frames.

I hope all that made sense.
-Zippy Dee
Ted Newman

["invincible" that constantly counts down until it hits 0]

Ok, I understand your idea, but I have a new problem: how to make that count down (I already made a post for this, but got no answers). Ty! :)

in your enterFrame function, use:

Actionscript Code:

if(this.invincible)this.invincible--;

Ok, I don't know what's going on, I add the script but it's not working.
I'm uploading the map so you can see it and maybe fix it. Thanks :xbones:

Edit: ups, forgot to upload

Uploading, sorry:

Edit: aw this is a old version, but nvm, you still can fix it.