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Looking to put a video together with your most recent queries, will hopefully upload one tomorrow.

Post your code! Submit and share! :)

so the situation has gotten a bit time consuming and I will not be in this Game Jam so see you in the next one

Share your code and someone can take a look at it. We are all kind of busy with the game jam right now, though...

If you want to look at an example, check out my last game jam entry, Parker Pumkin’s 115th Dream

Look at how I handle the array called enemies. The enemies in that game are basically bullets shot from the corners of the screen. When they fly outside the screen I use removeSprite and then remove them from the enemies array.

https://fuzearena.com/catalogs/view/4104

Come on Dave.. we're waiting ;)

What you are doing there is that you create ten sprites in the loop, but you put the handle to each one of them in the same variable (Bullet), overwriting the previous one.
There are two problems with that:

First of all, you create lots of sprites, but then you lose the handles to them. The sprites still remain in memory though, so for each bullet you create, it will eat up more and more Fuze memory. After a sprite is no longer useful, you need to destroy it with removeSprite(). Doing that returns resources and memory taken up by that particular sprite to be used again.

Secondly, since you lose the handles to all sprites but the most recently created one, you can not do any collision detection for them.

So, the solution is to instead have an array to store your sprites in. Then, when doing collision detection, you can loop over the array and perform your detection code for each bullet sprite. There are many ways to solve this, one could for instance have a large fixed array that you populate with bullet sprites at the start, and then you have a sprite property called .active or similar that you set to true when the bullet is fired.

Or one could have an array with dynamic length that just contains the visible shots. The tricky part here is that it is easy to add new items to an existing array, but a bit trickier to remove items, but it is certainly doable as well. If you are doing it this way, you need to use removeSprite() when the bullet hits or leaves the screen, and then remove it from the array.

So, in conclusion, read up on arrays, and every sprite that is created with createSprite() either needs to be reused later or destroyed with removeSprite() when no longer needed.

Feel free to ask if you need further assistance!

1109 is my best so far!

I was able to get 1668!

Exciting though with the state of my situation I am able to submit but may not be able to view the jam live. Can't wait to get started!