Fighting Talk: The Empower Strikes Back - The Game Maker's Companion: Game Development - page 158

25. Include a Set Variable action that sets unit to 0 .
26. Include a Repeat action that repeats the following block of actions health Times .
27. Include a Start Block action.
28. Include a Draw Sprite action ( draw tab) for spr_icon_health at the Relative position of
X = 224+(32*unit) , Y = 20 .
29. Include a Set Variable action ( control tab) that sets unit Relative to 1 .
30. Include an End Block action.
31. Create a new object ( Icons group) called obj_lives , give it the spr_icon_lives Sprite,
and set its Depth to -2000 .
32. Add a Draw event and include a Set Variable action that sets x to view_xview[0] .
33. Include a Set Variable action that sets y to view_yview[0] .
34. Include a Draw Sprite action ( draw tab) for spr_icon_lives at the Relative position of
X = 490 , Y = 280 .
35. Include another Draw Sprite action for spr_icon_digits at the Relative position of
X = 460 , Y = 280 and Subimage of lives . This will draw the appropriate digit for the
number of lives Zool has left.
36. Finally, reopen obj_controller and include a Create Instance action ( main1 tab) in its
Create event that creates an instance of obj_health .
37. Include another Create Instance action that creates an instance of obj_lives .

Zoolaphobia
Unbelievably, there is just one final action to add to our game to complete it—so what are we
missing? Well, the original Zool had some brilliantly wacky music tracks to accompany the game
that were ably composed by Patrick Phelan on the music tracker systems of the day. Patrick's
auntie actually worked at the Bassets sweet factory in Sheffield, so it's nice to think that this
music might have been written after consuming a particularly large amount of free Jelly Babies. It
fits the game perfectly and brings our current journey to a fitting conclusion.

Adding Music to the Game

Create a new Sound resource using the file snd_music from the Chapter06/Resources
directory on the CD.

1.

2. Reopen obj_zool and select the Game Start event. Include a Play Sound action ( main1

tab) to play snd_music with Loop set to true . Enjoy!