I'm going to try to add different kinds of platforms, however I don't really know how.  Right now all of the collisions are through pxl-Test.  Is there any other way to do collisions without creating a full tilemap so that it finds what kind of platform it is?

Weapons and enemies-no.  I might add powerups though.

After a long time I finally got around to learning appvars and adding highscores.  Here's the newest version.

     In the second Axe game I made, I let the user restart the game inside the program.  However, I lost the newer version of that program, and I forgot how I did it.  So my question is, how can you get a program to restart the game loop without making the whole game loop inside a repeat loop or subroutine.

So I just started learning python,(like 3 hours ago ),and I created a text based rock, paper, scissors program.  However, I cannot get it to allow the player to quit.  Here is the code. import random
while True:
    playerchoice=0
    compchoice=random.randrange(1,3)
    outcome=0
    quit="quit"
    rock="rock"
    paper="paper"
    scissors="scissors"
    while playerchoice==0:
        playerpick=raw_input("choice:")

        if playerpick==quit:
            break
            break
            break
         
        if playerpick==rock:
            playerchoice=1

        elif playerpick==paper:
            playerchoice=2

        elif playerpick==scissors:
            playerchoice=3

    if compchoice==1:
        print "vs rock"

    if compchoice==2:
        print "vs paper"

    if compchoice==3:
        print "vs scissors"

    if playerchoice==compchoice:
        print "tie"

    if playerchoice==1 and compchoice==2:
        outcome=2

    if compchoice==1 and playerchoice==2:
        outcome=1

    if playerchoice==1 and compchoice==3:
        outcome=1

    if compchoice==1 and playerchoice==3:
        outcome=2

    if playerchoice==2 and compchoice==3:
        outcome=2

    if compchoice==2 and playerchoice==3:
        outcome=1
       
    if outcome==1:
        print "u win"

    elif outcome==2:
        print "u lose"

Thanks

So I'm trying to teach some of my friends how to program.  I figured I'd start with gamemaker because its simple but still uses some of the concepts of programming.  However some of my friends are kind of computer clueless.  They don't know about file extensions, or browsers, or operating systems, but they seem willing to learn?  So does anyone know any good guides to basic computer knowledge.  If not, can someone give me somewhere to start?

Not sure if this is the right thread


Before I start this project, I want to see if its possible.  My goal is to create a small trading card game in pure BASIC.  Players will have an deck of up to three cards.  When they want to battle someone, the connect the calculators, select the card they want to use, and battle.  Cards get experience from battles, and use experience to level up.  Leveling up results in raised stats.  I have not decided how cards will acquire new moves, either by buying them with exp or getting them after leveling. 

-A card's stats are stored in a list, and when the player selects a card that cards stats are stored in a temporary list. 
-Players will be able to battle and trade via the link cable

Questions
-How to store a cards name with a list.
     I thought of using the first 8 slots of the list as the name and using a string with " ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" and sub.
-How to try to stop people from cheating.
-How to store an icon into a list.
 
Any answers would be appreciated.