Using function to create players

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I am wanting to use a function to create players, so i have created a function, but I also want to be able to deal damage to the players (there will be multiple players) and I can not figure out how to do this. I have managed to spawn different players using

function Spawn_players(x,y,texture)
{
 const player = this.physics.add.sprite(x,y,texture)
this.Player_health = 100;
}

And i spawn these from the create function using

playerOne = this.Spawn_players(100,100, 'playerTexOne')

And all this is working fine, but I just can not figure out how i would give the players damage when they are hit by an enemy. Do i have a new function for this?

2

If you want to have multiple players this.Player_health won’t work, because you could only save a single HP in your game, instead of multiple.

You could instead create a list (an array) of players and save its health within the sprite object.
You can then create a function Deal_damage to decrease this health value, by array index, whenever you want.

create ()
{
  this.players = []

  this.Spawn_players(100,100, 'playerTexOne')

  // If you want to do something with playerOne you can call `this.players[0]`
}

function Spawn_players(x,y,texture)
{
 const player = this.physics.add.sprite(x,y,texture)
 player.health = 100

 this.players.push(player)
}

/**
 * For playerOne `playerNo` must be 0, for playerTwo 1, ect...
 */
function Deal_damage(playerNo, damage)
{
  this.players[playerNo].health -= damage
}