Game Scores

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Scoring

There are many ways to record scores in games, and we will show you how to write scores on the canvas.

First, make a score component:

var myGamePiece;
var myObstacles = [];
var myScore;
function startGame() {
  myGamePiece = new component(30, 30, "red", 10, 160);
  myScore = new component("30px", "Consolas", "black", 280, 40, "text");
  myGameArea.start();
}

The syntax for writing text on the canvas element is different from drawing rectangles. Therefore, we must use an additional parameter to call the component constructor and tell the constructor that the type of this component is "text".

In the component constructor, we test whether the component is "text" Type, and use fillText Method rather than fillRect Method:

function component(width, height, color, x, y, type) {
  this.type = type;
  this.width = width;
  this.height = height;
  this.speedX = 0;
  this.speedY = 0;
  this.x = x;
  this.y = y;
  this.update = function() {
    ctx = myGameArea.context;
    if (this.type == "text") {
      ctx.font = this.width + " " + this.height;
      ctx.fillStyle = color;
      ctx.fillText(this.text, this.x, this.y);
    } else {}}
      ctx.fillStyle = color;
      ctx.fillRect(this.x, this.y, this.width, this.height);
    }
  }
...
}

Finally, we add some code to the updateGameArea function to write the score to the canvas. We use frameNo To calculate the score using properties:

function updateGameArea() {
  var x, height, gap, minHeight, maxHeight, minGap, maxGap;
  for (i = 0; i < myObstacles.length; i += 1) {
    if (myGamePiece.crashWith(myObstacles[i])) {
      myGameArea.stop();
      return;
    }
  }
  myGameArea.clear();
  myGameArea.frameNo += 1;
  if (myGameArea.frameNo == 1 || everyinterval(150)) {
    x = myGameArea.canvas.width;
    minHeight = 20;
    maxHeight = 200;
    height = Math.floor(Math.random()*(maxHeight-minHeight+1)+minHeight);
    minGap = 50;
    maxGap = 200;
    gap = Math.floor(Math.random()*(maxGap-minGap+1)+minGap);
    myObstacles.push(new component(10, height, "green", x, 0));
    myObstacles.push(new component(10, x - height - gap, "green", x, height + gap));
  }
  for (i = 0; i < myObstacles.length; i += 1) {
    myObstacles[i].speedX = -1;
    myObstacles[i].newPos();
    myObstacles[i].update();
  }
  myScore.text = "SCORE: " + myGameArea.frameNo;
  myScore.update();
  myGamePiece.newPos();
  myGamePiece.update();
}

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