On the inside of this project, markups/comments show how the scoring system works within the Alien Dash project. The scoring system has been extremely difficult to work around and implement. We started by using lists to store the Player names as strings. This didn't work as we had assumed lists would store data like cloud variables. (They do not!) Due to cloud variables only storing integer values, we had to convert the player names to integers by use of an encryption script that we built from scratch. We were then able to store these new values in the cloud variables. To reverse the process, so that we could print out the player names, we simply made a decryption script which converts the dual integer values back to letters. For example, "A" would be converted to the integer value: 01 "B" -> 02 "C" -> 03 The string "ABC" is then stored in one line as integer value: 010203. If this helped you implement a high scoring system in your own project, a love and comment would be greatly appreciate. Thanks from all the Alien Dash dev team! Interrested in following along with the Alien Dash project development? Follow here for more: https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/5224283/
