Space Shooter - Lives and Score

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This tutorial is a series of tutorials that will teach you how to create Space Shooter Game. The tutorial is divided in 5 parts. If you haven't learned the previous tutorials, please see Space Shooter Flash Game

This is the forth part of the development of a Space Shooter game. In this tutorial we will add lives, scores and game over to our game.

Let's start with score.

Open the main timeline code and add this variable:

Now open the Bullet's code and add this:
This is the code we used before to know if a bullet hits an enemy, so we can put the score for killing an enemy there.

If you want the player to lose points for getting killed, just add "_root.score -= PointsToLose" to the code that checks if the player was killed.

The score is done; we just need to show the player his score.
To do that, select the Text Tool and draw it on the stage.

Write "Score:"

Now draw another Text box on the stage. Select this new Text box and change these properties:


Run the game and see how it works.


Now let's make our ship have lives. Add another variable in the main code: