Time for action — creating the main game events

Now that our objects are set up, we can go on to make their events in the Game event sheet.

1. 1. We are now ready to switch to the Event Sheet Editor to make the basics of our game. Start by adding an event sheet named Game to our project and include this from the event sheet of our level.

2. 2. Open the Game event sheet and create the empty event groups Startup, HUD, Scrolling, Enemies, Guns, Join-In, Players, Death, Sound, and LevelTransitions. These can be given descriptions relative to their group name in their group creation dialog box:

   

3. 3. In the Startup group, add the System condition Start of layout. Add actions for the BackStopper, FrontStopper, and GoNextScreen objects to match those as shown in the following screenshot:

   

4. 4. Now add actions to set the Global Variable values of GameWonLost and CurrentScreen to 0.

5. 5. Next, add actions to destroy P2Legs and make P2Face and P2Info invisible, before finally adding actions to set the Global...