Every game has to end badly, with either the player running out of time (which we have already handled), or getting squished by a branch.

Detecting the player getting squished is really simple. All we want to know is whether the last branch in the branchPositions array equals playerSide. If it does, the player is dead.

Add the highlighted code that detects this and then we will talk about everything we do when the player is squished:

  // Handle a flying log         
  if (logActive) 
  { 
 
    spriteLog.setPosition( 
      spriteLog.getPosition().x + (logSpeedX * dt.asSeconds()),
        spriteLog.getPosition().y + (logSpeedY * dt.asSeconds())); 
 
    // Has the log reached the right hand edge? 
    if (spriteLog.getPosition().x < -100 || 
      spriteLog.getPosition().x > 2000) 
    { 
      // Set it up ready to be a whole new cloud next frame 
      logActive = false; 
      spriteLog.setPosition(800, 600); 
    } 
  } 
 
  // Has the player been squished by a branch? 
  if (branchPositions[5] == playerSide) 
  { 
    // death 
    paused = true; 
    acceptInput = false; 
     
    // Draw the gravestone 
    spriteRIP.setPosition(525, 760); 
 
    // hide the player 
    spritePlayer.setPosition(2000, 660); 
 
    // Change the text of the message 
    messageText.setString("SQUISHED!!"); 
 
    // Center it on the screen 
    FloatRect textRect = messageText.getLocalBounds(); 
 
    messageText.setOrigin(textRect.left + 
      textRect.width / 2.0f, 
      textRect.top + textRect.height / 2.0f); 
 
    messageText.setPosition(1920 / 2.0f, 
      1080 / 2.0f); 
 
  } 
 
} // End if(!paused) 
 
/* 
**************************************** 
Draw the scene 
**************************************** 
*/ 

The first thing the code does, after the player's demise, is to set paused to true. Now the loop will complete this frame and won't run the update part of the loop again until a new game is started by the player.

Then we move the gravestone into position, near where the player was standing, and hide the player sprite off-screen.

We set the string of messageText to "SQUISHED!!" and then use the usual technique to center it on the screen.

You can now run the game and play it for real. This image shows the player's final score and his gravestone, as well as the SQUISHED message.

There is just one more problem. Is it just me, or is it a little bit quiet?