My student created this game: https://studio.code.org/projects/gamelab/ZiihJxNoCeb7DMCXMZM0pn-5KeVASdxdnC1KNbHgd38
When it is run, we get this error message: ERROR: Line: 32: Error: Error: overlap can only be checked between sprites or groups
When I looked up this error message I got this: The message “ overlap only works with sprites ” most likely means that the program was expecting a sprite , but got something else. So, something that the programmer intended to be a sprite was, in fact, not a sprite .Mar 5, 2019
To me, his code looks good. Any help/suggestions? Thank you!
Hi @jennifer.hemry,
I saw a few things that appear to have fixed it for me:
- In line 13, coin scale is set to .5 and it gives an error. Changing it to 0.5 eliminated the error for me.
- I tried to figure out why there was an overlap error in line 32 and it looked good to me. I read below to see if anything else was odd, and noticed they were incrementing “coin” in line 33. Coin is a sprite, not a regular variable, so that was a little odd. I thought maybe they meant to increment score & changed it. That seems to make it work for me.
Does that help? Does it work on your end if you make those changes?
–Michael K.
YEAH! That worked! 
LOL! Can’t believe I missed that. Looking at too much coin today.
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OOPS! Too much code not too much coin. I’m losing it.
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No worries – more often than not, it’s silly little things that make the biggest problems. Glad to help
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