Assembly Mode

Detects when your player runs into its zone and works with the controller sensor to set up places your player will respawn (come back to life) when they die.

When a possessed puppet runs into the zone the checkpoint is activated. When the character dies, they are respawned at the active checkpoint.

This behavior is largely automatic - when a signal is fired to the die input of the controller sensor, the is dead output fires, which by default is wired into respawn.

All you have to do is place the checkpoints and produce the signal that the character is dead, using the health gadgets. The game takes care of the rest.

Only one checkpoint can be active at one time, but you can activate a checkpoint manually if you want to using the activate me input.

Without building an entire game, let's just get an idea of the checkpoint with a simple example. Place a checkpoint and a light. Point the light down at the checkpoint.

Connect currently active on the checkpoint to the power port on the light. Stamp a blank puppet and enter test mode. Possess the puppet.

Walk up to the checkpoint. The light is activated because the checkpoint "knows" it's looking for characters (or possessed controller sensors, to be precise).

For giving exclusive stuff to your player that they can only get from your scene. If you've made something you're really proud of, stick it in a prize bubble in your scene.

Maybe you'll see it in someone else's creation one of these days. Let's play with it. Stamp a prize bubble and find something to put into the item slot.

Disable use built-in collection sound so we can hook up our own sound effect for collecting it. Find yourself a sound effect you like.

Connect just collected on the prize bubble to the power port of the sound effect. Make sure it's set to play once. Stamp a puppet in there, enter test mode and possess it.

Go pick up that prize bubble. Easy peasy.

If you want to join two or more scenes together into a dream, you'll need to add some of these in the places you want players to enter or leave each scene.

Plonk it where you want it and tweak it to be an exit, an entrance or two-way. Add the scene to a dream and you'll see the doorways and can link them to other scenes.

You can use the doorway activated output to trigger whatever you want your player to experience when they enter your scene - a cool camera pan, say. Or a monster attack.

Of course you can set up what happens when a player enters your scene in all sorts of ways - it doesn't have to use a doorway. They're just handy for that.

In particular you can use the built-in wiper to transition from one scene to another. See the second page of the tweak menu - it's pretty much the same as the wiper itself.

Note that if you don't set up a doorway and/or some kind of entrance behavior, a player will start at the grid origin when they play it.

Let's see it working. Stamp a doorway, a trigger zone and a puppet. Connect the detected output port from the trigger zone to the power port on the doorway.

The doorway is set to exit by default, so the scene will end when the doorway is triggered. Go to the options menu and enter play mode.

Possess the puppet and run into the trigger zone. The scene will end (you'll be prompted to save first, don't worry). Why not have a play with the wipe effects?

If you want your player to stamp your lovingly created elements, consider using one of these. It means they'll be able to do it neatly as per your design.

If, say, you give them bits to make a bridge, you'd presumably rather they didn't plonk them in upside-down, or the wrong size or what-have-you.

Put this on your element and you'll be able to define a min/max scale, switch on the grid, and set things to stay upright, and use surface snap.

As this gadget is specifically meant for others using your elements, seeing it in action is a little involved. First of all, you'll need to choose an element to make.

A sculpture for example. So if you've not chosen an element, exit out to the dreamiverse and do so. Then stamp in a shape and snap an auto guide onto it.

Tweak the gadget and enable grid snap. Now do a quick save from the options menu. Exit to the dreamiverse and start fresh on a whole new scene.

Go to guides, turn on obey auto guides, and use search to select your saved element. Notice that it's snapping to the grid, even though you don't have grid snap turned on.

Put this in your scene to define the values you want for global settings like gravity. You can wire it up to other gadgets to make the settings happen when you want.

Let's play with gravity. Stamp in a shape, putting it way above the floor. Tweak it and make it movable. Hit start time and pay attention to how it falls.

Rewind and stamp in a global settings gadget. Enable adjust gravity and make it 0%. Start time again and note that the shape is suspended in the air.

Rewind again and make gravity strength 1% this time. Hit start time and notice how slowly it falls. Try again with 600% gravity strength and watch it crash to the floor.

Initializes and defines any scores you want to keep track of in your dreams. Use it with the score modifier to tally, adjust and output your players' scores.

Let's make a little game. This will be the most complicated little example we've tackled so far, so let's use a microchip. Stamp one into your scene.

Add a score gadget and a score modifier. Give the score a name, and put the same name into the name field on the score modifier. Set operation type to add.

Make the operation value 1. Now add a controller sensor, set it to remote controllable, and connect the output of to the power port of the score modifier.

So far what we've done will make the score increment by 1 each time we press . Now let's give players a timer. Add one to the 'chip and give it a target time of 10s.

Set it to count down, just for excitement. Connect timer finished (pulse) to post score on the score gadget, to add the score to the scoreboard when the timer runs out.

Now we want another timer. Connect the first one's timer finished (pulse) to start timer on the new one. Make the target time on the new one 0.5s. Then add a doorway.

Connect timer finished (pulse) on the new timer to the power port on the doorway. What we're doing here is ending the game when the timer runs out.

We need the second timer to add a tiny delay, to give us time to post the score before the doorway activates and ends the scene. Let's display the timer and score.

Add a couple of number displayers. On the score gadget, connect current score to the number/range input of one of them. Move the number to the middle of the screen.

On the original timer, connect current time to the number/range input of the other number displayer. Set its display format to time and enable show milliseconds.

That's all the wiring done! Now we need to save a version, so if you haven't already done a quick save, do it now. Then select save version and save it online as private.

Exit to the dreamiverse and select start fresh and then dream. Use search to add your game to the dream, and again save a version online as private.

Now just play your game (the dream not the scene) and set a high score! You'll notice you get a scoreboard button on the cover page after you've done that. Take a peek!

Makes changes to any scores you've set up. Typically you'll have more score modifiers than scores, as you'd have multiple things that could affect your score.

Let's make a little game. This will be the most complicated little example we've tackled so far, so let's use a microchip. Stamp one into your scene.

Add a score gadget and a score modifier. Give the score a name, and put the same name into the name field on the score modifier. Set operation type to add.

Make the operation value 1. Now add a controller sensor, set it to remote controllable, and connect the output of to the power port of the score modifier.

So far what we've done will make the score increment by 1 each time we press . Now let's give players a timer. Add one to the 'chip and give it a target time of 10s.

Set it to count down, just for excitement. Connect timer finished (pulse) to post score on the score gadget, to add the score to the scoreboard when the timer runs out.

Now we want another timer. Connect the first one's timer finished (pulse) to start timer on the new one. Make the target time on the new one 0.5s. Then add a doorway.

Connect timer finished (pulse) on the new timer to the power port on the doorway. What we're doing here is ending the game when the timer runs out.

We need the second timer to add a tiny delay, to give us time to post the score before the doorway activates and ends the scene. Let's display the timer and score.

Add a couple of number displayers. On the score gadget, connect current score to the number/range input of one of them. Move the number to the middle of the screen.

On the original timer, connect current time to the number/range input of the other number displayer. Set its display format to time and enable show milliseconds.

That's all the wiring done! Now we need to save a version, so if you haven't already done a quick save, do it now. Then select save version and save it online as private.

Exit to the dreamiverse and select start fresh and then dream. Use search to add your game to the dream, and again save a version online as private.

Now just play your game (the dream not the scene) and set a high score! You'll notice you get a scoreboard button on the cover page after you've done that. Take a peek!

Opens up the blank puppet collection, a selection of pristine mannequins to build upon, with abilities and characteristics applicable to a variety of genres.