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Oh, I got it working! Thank you so much Dan! I'll probably ask more questions a bit later after I do a few more things with the game. Thank you!

The only way the Crab class would show up in the "Other classes" area is if you removed what class it extended or changed it to something other than Actor or World. Just make sure you have the class extending the Actor class. If you have issues with bringing it back, post the code for the class so we might be able to tell what is happening and why it is not showing up where you want it to.

Thank you danpost :)

@SPower, I see where you see an assignment symbol ( '=' ) in place of a conditional equality symbol ( '==' ); however, it will never actually change the value there as it was just set to 'true' in a previous line. What this means is that the question does need to be asked. Removing lines 9, 10 and 14 will not change what the code does. Also, a timer is not what ZacBuzzsaw is going to need -- a boolean field is indeed what is wanted (like the 'isShot' field), but the way it is used is incorrect (hence, its name is also misleading). The field should track the state of the "space" key or shou

Thanks for your help, I ended up using a solution similar to the one found in this thread: http://www.greenfoot.org/topics/200 BTW, lines 11-15 do not work without a method, the linked thread uses a for loop to do something similar.

I appreciate that - you do great work and so many benefit from your contribution to teaching future programmers.

For one thing, once the method has completed its execution, the 'bg' variable is lost. By creating a new GreenfootImage object, you are not dealing with the image returned by the use of 'getBackground'. but making a copy of the background image.

The 'shoot' method in the Alien class is not being called at all. You should probably have it called from the act method under some random condition.

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@SPower, if it is done the way you suggest, there will have to be a way to determine beforehand which note is to be added when one is to be added. That means the a representation of the order of notes and the wait time between them must be listed in a string or with the use of one or more arrays or lists. My suggestion for this is to use a song string that has letters for the notes and numbers for the times. The numbers can be reduced to one digit numbers by dividing the wait time by a common factor (in the code given by CrimsonGuitarist, that factor would be 25). Then the playSong code wo

It could be like this in the start screen act method: <Code Omitted>

Hey guys, I'm sorry to say that the code here didn't work :( but on the bright side, a friend of mine helped out and it is all fixed. thanks for everyone's efforts in helping :D

For a pacman ghost, you would do something like this: (1) turn to face current direction moving (2) move (3) determine and list possible directions to proceed from new location (4) randomly choose a direction from the list (5) set possibly new current direction to move as determined by random choice in (4) (6) reset rotation back to zero

I have written a support class for smooth movement and rotation that has a subclass to apply gravity and drag (air-resistance). They are both included in my GQActor Superclass Demo scenario.

These are both a matter of displaying values (one is an integer value and the other is a string value). You could check out my Value Display Tutorial to see how this can be done.