Simple Score Keeping

I'm asking my middle schoolers to build a game, and I'm wondering what is the very simplest method of keeping score. For instance, every time a shark "eats" a fish, the shark's score is incremented by one point. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Bill

Originally Posted by bstanard

I'm asking my middle schoolers to build a game, and I'm wondering what is the very simplest method of keeping score. For instance, every time a shark "eats" a fish, the shark's score is incremented by one point. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Bill

I assume you are asking how to display the score. One approach is to use the say method and let the shark display her own score.

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[Chris101b]

I think he is asking how the shark can keep track of how many fish he has eaten. So that if it eats ten fish, the score at the top will say 10. I am not good at programming games, so I cant help you. But I thought that I would just clarify the question.

Originally Posted by Chris101b

I think he is asking how the shark can keep track of how many fish he has eaten. So that if it eats ten fish, the score at the top will say 10. I am not good at programming games, so I cant help you. But I thought that I would just clarify the question.

Just initialize a counter variable to zero and then increment it by one each time the shark eats a fish.

Then maybe let the shark burp and display the total fish eaten in a say bubble. (You can probably find a burp sound file on the web somewhere.)

See http://www.dickbaldwin.com/alice/Alice0140.htm for information on how to program variables in Alice.

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Thanks, Dick and Chris... Exactly what I needed to get going. Dick, Your on line tutorials are first rate!
Regards,
Bill