How to Increase the Difficulty of Your MakeCode Arcade Game

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Learn how to bring balance to your MakeCode Arcade game and ramp up the difficulty as time goes on! In this video we show how to increase the speed and shorten the spawn time of enemies over time. The same technique can be applied to many other features in your game including making the game easier.

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/_315EbRV8J8id
or with your own game made at: https://arcade.makecode.com

0:00 - Intro
1:05 - Ramp up enemy speed
3:12 - Clamping enemy speed
4:41 - Spawn enemies faster
5:25 - Forever loop + pause blocks
6:42 - Changing and clamping enemy spawn time
8:00 - Outro

Here's the final result: https://makecode.com/_Ph7c0HDV9AMq

Expand on your game by:
- Making a space shooter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tUQ51H6hEQ)
- Adding health bars (https://youtu.be/m7avrQrLP3M)
- Adding power ups (https://youtu.be/S-WMUIwQ7uM)

Discuss this video at: (https://forum.makecode.com/t/new-video-how-to-ramp-up-the-difficulty-of-your-game/3483)



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