How to Add Health Bars to Your MakeCode Arcade Game

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Learn how to add health or other status bars to your MakeCode Arcade game. If you haven't seen MakeCode Arcade yet, try starting with making your own space shooter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tUQ51H6hEQ

Follow along starting from: https://makecode.com/_gj2YY16TkCj9
or with your own game made at: https://arcade.makecode.com

0:00 - Intro
0:58 - Add status bar extension
1:49 - Add a health bar
2:13 - Attach health bar
2:46 - Reducing health on hit
5:05 - On zero health destroy
6:10 - Customize status bars

Here's the final result:
https://makecode.com/_315EbRV8J8id

Expand on your game by:
- Making a space shooter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tUQ51H6hEQ)
- Increasing the difficulty of your game (coming soon)
- Adding power ups (https://youtu.be/S-WMUIwQ7uM)

Discuss this video at: https://forum.makecode.com/t/new-video-how-to-add-health-bars-to-your-game/3456







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