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Create an animated  bat in Piskel and animate it

Insert the bat in the game

Go to your events

Condition: Hero + Distance between two objects + Hero & Bat 300

So what we are saying is When the hero comes 300 pixels from the bat, the condition is met

Action: Add a force to move toward an object

Object : Bat

Target: Hero

Speed:200

We have done this already with the bad guy so we are just repeating but with the bat

Add a new event 

Hero is falling and in collision with Bat then delete bat

Add a new event 

Hero is in collision with Bat then delete bat Change scene to Untitled scene

Create a new Sprite and call it Blade

Open up piskel and made a blade

Add a platform and place your blade

Create a sprite in piskel pointing right and name it ArrowRight

Create a sprite in piskel pointing left and name it ArrowLeft

Place them in the game pointing towards your blade

Now we are going to create an External Event

This is an event that works in every scene that you connect it to.

Create a new External Event

Name it Enemies

Double click your external event to open it up

Click on choose the scene because we want to connect this to our untitled scene

Add an event in our Enemies External Event

We are going to be messing with variables now so make sure you understand what is happening

Condition: If blade collides with arrow right

We are going to create two variables

The first variable is going to be the blade going one way and the second variable is going to be the blade going the other way so that when the blade touches one arrow, it switches variables to make the blade co the other way. This would be similar to a guard walking back and forth.

Create the action Change Variable Value

Name the variable Walking

Click "Click to add it" to open up your scene variables

You can see we have created a variable called Walking, it is a number and it starts at 0

If the blade collides with arrow right, it changes the variable to 0

Now lets create another event so that the blade collides with ArrowLeft and changes the variable to 1

We want to trigger both of these once while true

Now we have the variables set up but we need to add an event the gives the blade force

Create new event

Condition: Variable value + Walking + 0 (Zero being our 0 variable)

What are are saying is when the Walking Variable is 0 then do this action then add force to move toward an object (just like we did with the bat)

Add force to move toward an object 

Object is the Blade

Target Object Arrow Left

Speed 100

Next duplicate the event you just created but this time you want the variable to be 1 and the blade is moving toward the ArrowRight with an instant force of 100

When we save and test, it doesn't work. We have to go to the scene and link it to the event.

Add some rotation to your walking variables

Next we will hide the arrows in our game

In scene events under camera

Create an event

The condition is always and the action is Hide and the object

Make the blade flip when it is going one way and not flip when it goes the other way