6.11 Collect coins

Your player sprite should have be able to collect coins as it moves through the world.

Add a new variable valled coins to your project.

Select the coin sprite and click show.

Add code to your coin sprite so that it only appears in room 1.

Add code to your coin sprite so that the sprite hides and 1 is added to the coins variable once the player sprite touches the coin sprite to ‘pick it up’.

Now add code to the Stage to set your coins variable to 0 at the start of the game.

Test your game. Collecting a coin should change your coins score to 1.