I'm creating a balloon game where the user is supposed to hit balloons with a needle in order to make them disappear. (have a look at the swf-file).

In the main time line I have created the variable 'lifes' with a value of 4. My intention is that every time the user miss a balloon, he loses a life.

The balloons is a looped movieclip, and I would assume that the best solution would be to put something like this:

life = life-1;

in the end of the balloon movieclip, but the variable does not seem to exist inside the movieclip. I cant even trace it...

Here is links to my .swf and my .fla

.swf
http://www.irritasjon.com/unsw/flash..._blaster_5.swf

.fla
http://www.irritasjon.com/unsw/flash..._blaster_5.fla