Please will someone help me with this, I can't seem to do it. You guys got any ideas

If the power dots are sprites then when pacman is touching power dot then you need to tell the ghosts to change to a “run away” mode by either changing a variable or broadcasting an event. If you do a search there are articles describing how the original pacman ghosts worked and the ideas are relatively easy to implement in Scratch although by no means a beginners project.

drmcw wrote:

If the power dots are sprites then when pacman is touching power dot then you need to tell the ghosts to change to a “run away” mode by either changing a variable or broadcasting an event. If you do a search there are articles describing how the original pacman ghosts worked and the ideas are relatively easy to implement in Scratch although by no means a beginners project.

Thank you for the tip. I'll see how it goes.

Guys, if any of you don't mind could you make a short youtube video\walkthrough on a video file to show me how to do it. It would be a great help.
Many thanks,
jackycarson.

drmcw wrote:

If the power dots are sprites then when pacman is touching power dot then you need to tell the ghosts to change to a “run away” mode by either changing a variable or broadcasting an event. If you do a search there are articles describing how the original pacman ghosts worked and the ideas are relatively easy to implement in Scratch although by no means a beginners project.

Yep. It definitely isn't a beginner's project. I started a project in computers class before I even joined here and it still isn't done.

Anyway, I will post a picture of the scripts with notes on the side soon. Just give me a couple minutes.

mitchboy wrote:

drmcw wrote:

If the power dots are sprites then when pacman is touching power dot then you need to tell the ghosts to change to a “run away” mode by either changing a variable or broadcasting an event. If you do a search there are articles describing how the original pacman ghosts worked and the ideas are relatively easy to implement in Scratch although by no means a beginners project.

Yep. It definitely isn't a beginner's project. I started a project in computers class before I even joined here and it still isn't done.

Anyway, I will post a picture of the scripts with notes on the side soon. Just give me a couple minutes.

Thanks, that would be a great help

Please could you hurry.

As mentioned above, when power dots are touched a variable must be set or broadcast to signal the ghosts to move in a direction away from pacman. How can this be done? If the y position of pacman is less than the y position of the ghost, the ghost will want to move up, so you can use an if statement to first off make it so
You can also try adding in more scripts so if pacman's x position is less than the ghost's, the ghost moves right. So you can program it so wherever pacman is in relation to the ghost, the ghost moves in the cardinal direction(s) away from pacman, as long as there is no restricting blue wall. Hope I helped some

It may be a 1.4 version project but the best pacman Scratch game has to be ifugu's. You'll learn a lot looking at the code.

If any of you have done this project before and have got the ghosts to work with the powers than I not really good at trying to work off word, I would prefer you you guys have the time to have a video walkthrough, I prefer this as it is easy to understand and I can follow where I am on it, I just fine it easier. SO if you guys don't mind could you make a video walkthrough.
Many thanks,
jackycarson
PS. Thanks for trying to help me so far guys I'm just stupid and don't understand.
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Could you guys make either a video walk through or a picture as I find it easier to follow then you guys just telling me what to do. So, If you guys have the time please could you do a video walk through or a picture.
Many thanks,
jackycarson