Dyiing way too quickly?

[Shounenbat]

I'm having a strange problem with something I've done a million times: collisions. When my character collides with an enemy, the "Damage" loop plays once. For this loop, the character bounces (to get the player away from the enemy), flashes for a bit, and then loses one life.

+On loop "Damage"
+Number of lives > 0

-Subtract 1 from number of lives
-Bounce, Flash during 00"-15, Set Flash to -20

There is code earlier to reactivate the player, but that's not the problem.

The problem is that the character loses all 3 lives the second it collides with an enemy character. I put up some counters so each time there was a collision, it would add 1 to the counter. After intentionally ramming into an enemy, the counter said 3. So, I figured that maybe the character wasn't bouncing properly, so I set up a second counter to add 1 every time the player bounced. Sure enough, it said 3 after I touched the enemy just once.

How do I keep the character from dying so fast? Repositioning him just gets him stuck in walls and other obstacles more often than not (the game is very Pacmanish or Bombermanish).

[DaveC]

Try these out. You have to make sure that the condition where the player is losing health is only true repeatedly (player hits enemy, subtract 1 health will happen over and over again and drain the health instantly unless you add more conditions to prevent that)

and more specific to your code.. how many times does the loop run? that could be the problem. You could instead do something like "player collides with enemy + flash=0" sub 1 life then run loop damage x times. (but the damage loop does not subtract life, that has already happened on the initial collision.)

Take Damage.mfa

[Shounenbat]

Thanks for the reply and for your example. The loop runs only once, but I'll try having the initial collision take out life instead of the loop to see what happens.