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 Sh...
Follow along starting from: makecode.com/_...
or with your own game made at: arcade.makecod...
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: makecode.com/_...
Expand on your game by:
- Making a space shooter ( • How to Make a Space Sh... )
- Adding health bars ( • How to Add Health Bars... )
- Increase the difficulty of your game ( • How to Increase the Di... )
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