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1,853 PointsGame freezes when collecting coins
Everything was working fine until I edited the bit of code involving conditions. Now when I run the game and collect the first code, the game freezes.
Here's the workspace: https://w.trhou.se/dav0ohmwwz
1 Answer
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,971 PointsIf you check the console you will see at line 87 you are treating losingMessage as if it was a function by following it with parentheses. This causes the crash. In addition this code always executes because you are using an assignment operator in your condition in the line before
} if (lost = true) {
I updated your code here as follows
} if (lost === true) {
// losingMessage();
losingMessage.text = "YOU LOSE, TRY AGAIN!!!";
}
but you may want to add a function that kills the player/stops the game
You also aren't updating current lives onscreen where the player can see. This is because you have you update text twice. For this I added another variable text2
var text;
var text2;
modified the code that adds the text to the game
text = game.add.text(16, 16, "LIVES: " + currentLives, { font: "bold 24px Arial", fill: "white" });
text2 = game.add.text(650, 16, "SCORE: " + currentScore, { font: "bold 24px Arial", fill: "white" });
and the code the updates the text
function update() {
text.text = "LIVES: " + currentLives;
text2.text = "SCORE: " + currentScore;