Title Screen/Game Over Screen

NashiyamaHP

Hey all!
Loving FUZE! I’ve always wanted to get into programming as a hobby and Fuze on switch has made it really easy to get started.

I’m working on customizing the asteroid type game from the sprite game tutorial. I’m wanting to add a title screen and game over screen. I’ve looked at a few example projects and I THINK that the best course of action is to create some custom functions that will print the screens. That’s simple enough I guess, but what do I then do with the main game loop? Can I jump from the title screen function to the main game loop? Or do I need to make a custom function that holds the main game loop in it. A little confused here.

I’ve coded some title screens in basic before but that fairly simple because of GOTO and return.

Thanks for the help.

pianofire

Your main loop can just call the relevant functions e.g.:

screen = 0

loop
  clear()
  c = controls(0)
  screen = c.a // Press the A key to change screen
  if screen == 0 then
    screen0()
  endif
  if screen == 1 then
   screen1()
  endif
  update()
repeat

function screen0()
  printat(twidth() / 2, theight() /2, "Screen 0")
return void
 
function screen1()
  printat(twidth() / 2, theight() /2, "Screen 1")
return void

waldron

where would you put this code at the beginning or can you pop it anywhere?

pianofire

@waldron it's up to you really any code outside of the functions will be executed in turn. I prefer to have my main program loop at the top and the functions below but it is a matter of choice

waldron

@pianofire thanks, so if i put it below my main game loop it would work

pianofire

@waldron The loop ... repeat in this example is the main game loop

waldron

@pianofire theight? Not thight? Right ?

pianofire

@waldron Well spotted!

waldron

Ok iv put my code in, where do I put the functions,
Function screen0()
And
Function screen1()
Figure I need something in the brackets maybe?...

pianofire

@waldron Sorry I don't understand the question. Can you send us a screenshot?

waldron

I'll send them later, but at the minute I'm
Running the game but gos to a black screen with screen0, then screen1 when I press A

Running it with the amuse gothicmania sample project

pianofire

@waldron That's what it is supposed to do. It is only an example to show how you could to have multiple screens. You will probably want something more like this:

screen = 0

loop
  clear()
  c = controls(0)

  if screen == 0 then
    
    titleScreen() 
    // check for start button press and set screen = 1

  endif

  if screen == 1 then

     gameScreen()
     // if game over set screen = 2
     
  endif

  if screen == 2 then
    
   gameOverScreen()
   // check for button press and set screen = 0

  endif
  update()
repeat

function titleScreen()
  
  // draw title screen here

return void

function gameScreen()
  
  // draw game screen here

return void
 
function gameOverScreen()
  
  // draw game over screen here

return void

waldron

@pianofire perfect thanks