How to Add Power Ups to Your MakeCode Arcade Game

Learn how to add power ups to your MakeCode Arcade game! In this video we show how to have enemies drop items that you can pick up and change the behavior of your hero. This video starts with a space shooter, but the same technique can be applied to many other games.

If you haven't seen MakeCode Arcade yet, try starting with making your own space shooter: How to Make a Space Shooter Game in M...

Follow along starting from: https://makecode.com/_315EbRV8J8id
or with your own game made at: https://arcade.makecode.com

0:00 - Intro
0:53 - Create a function
3:45 - Dropping a power up
5:35 - Placing the power up
7:04 - Picking up a power up
7:54 - Double fire mode indicator
10:14 - Double fire effect
12:02 - Double fire lifespan
15:50 - Double fire mode indicator kind

Here's the final result: https://makecode.com/_6aR8xCTfTWRY

Expand on your game by:
- Making a space shooter (How to Make a Space Shooter Game in M...)
- Adding health bars (How to Add Health Bars to Your MakeCo...)
- Increase the difficulty of your game (How to Increase the Difficulty of You...)

Discuss this video at: (https://forum.makecode.com/t/new-vide...)

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