Game Lab Debugging Issues

CS Discoveries Coding and Debugging Help
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Two of my 7th grade students are having a few issues with their game. Can someone check this game and see what is causing the glitches? Thank you .

-aircraft “fireball” shows up for no reason

-“fireball (named crash)” is supposed to only show up after “hitbox” line is touched

-bomb explosion “water balloon splash” always appears for no reason, supposed to appear after touching “hitbox” line

-fighter jet (f4) always touching line

-f4 fighter jet always touched the line, and triggers code always for no reason

-fatal error when using “w” and “s”, which is used to make the F-4 pitch up and down to make the bullet stay with it

-map doesn’t loop

needed fix:

-crash only appears after hitbox line is hit

-bomb explosion shows up after hitbox line is touched

-hitbox is always triggered though being at the bottom of the map

-map needs to loop terrain instead of disappearing

-dart (bullet) needs to stay with plane, even while aircraft pitches down

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I spent a little time playing the game and couldn’t get all of those problems to occur. I think we may need a little more explanation on how to reproduce some of the errors, or it will be difficult to troubleshoot.

I can help with the hitbox, perhaps. The animation for the hitbox is much larger than just the line itself. Even the “invisible” parts of the animation will cause a collision, so they may want to use the crop icon to trim that to remove the invisible areas.

I’m not sure how the map is supposed to loop and the explosions may or may not be resolved by cropping the hitbox line.

I’d start there and then use debugging strategies to zero in on one issue at a time as they attempt to work out the remaining issues.

Feel free to reach back out with more detailed explanations if possible on the next bug they want to tackle.

Mike

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Thank you. They will be in class around 2:55 today.