You may have beat the Hunger Run game in no time or you may have failed miserably just like me. Whichever type of gamer you are, you can configure Hunger Run to be harder or easier. We will wrap up this project with just doing that.
The table shows all the configurable items:
|
Sprites |
Variable name |
Usage |
Value to use for tweaking |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Game Manager, Brick, Food |
|
Lower is easier. When lower, the run is shorter. | |
|
Game Manager |
|
Lower is easier. Player can avoid bad food. | |
|
Food |
|
Lower is easier. When lower, fewer food types are bad. | |
|
Food |
|
Lower is more difficult. When lower, bad food would show sooner. |
We will demonstrate how to configure these variables: grid_count, bad_food_start_grid_idx, scroll_speed, and good_food_start_cos_idx.
Perform the following steps to decrease the value of the grid_count variable:
- Go to the Game Manager sprite's Scripts tab.
- Find the when <green flag> clicked block, and enter a value lower than 10 in the set <grid_count> to () block.
Perform the following steps to increase the value of the grid_count variable:
- Create additional costumes for the brick sprite. Say we add five more costumes to make a total of 15 costumes.
- Go to the Game Manager sprite's Scripts tab.
- Find the when <green flag> clicked block, and enter
15in the set <grid_count> to () block.
Perform the following steps to adjust the time when bad thing and bad food appears:
- Go to Game Manager sprite's Scripts tab.
- Find the when <green flag> clicked block.
- To make the game harder, enter a lower value than 3, say
2, in the set <bad_food_start_grid_idx> to () block. Therefore, the bad food would show up at grid 2, instead of grid 3. - To make the game easier, enter a higher value than 3, say
5, in the set <bad_food_start_grid_idx> to () block. Therefore, the bad food would show up at grid 5, instead of grid 3.
Perform the following steps to tweak the scrolling speed:
- Go to the Game Manager's Scripts tab.
- Find the when <green flag> clicked block.
- To make the game harder, enter a value higher than 0.5, say
2, in the set <scroll_speed> to () block. Therefore, the bad food would show up at brick number 2, instead of brick number 3. - To make the game easier, enter a value higher than 3, say
5, in the set bad_food_start_grid_idx to () block. Therefore, the bad food would show up at brick number 5, instead of brick number 3.
Perform the following steps to tweak the movement of the player:
- Go to the player's Scripts tab.
- Find the when I receive <game_start> block.
- To make the game easier, increase the value of the
jump_stepsorjump_wait_timevariable. The larger thejump_stepsvariable is, the higher the player sprite will jump. - Moreover, we can make the player fall faster after he jumps. To do so, increase the value of the
fall_speedvariable.
Assume your food sprite costume list is as the one shown in the following screenshot (as included in the starter project):
To make the game easier, reduce the bad food ratio by performing the following steps:
- Go to the food sprite's Scripts tab.
- Find the when <green flag> clicked block.
- To make the game easier, enter a value lower than 3, say
2, in the set <good_food_start_cos_idx> to () block. There would be one bad food type. - To make the game harder, enter a value higher than 3, say
5, in the set good_food_start_cos_idx to () block. Then there will be four bad food types.The result of tweaking the
good_food_start_cos_idxvariable is shown in the following screenshot: