A global variable

Hopscotch Programming Language Evolution
#1

A feature I’d like to see in Hopscotch is:

A global variable. A global variable is a variable that saves like the player variable but it is the same for every player.

I’d use it for this type of project:

Any game that has a leaderboard.

Here are some examples of Hopscotch code that could be improved if we had this:

We could make games that automatically update their leaderboards.

Here is an example design I’ve made:

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I’ve seen something similar in another programming languages, it looks like this:

I haven’t.

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#2

I agree, this would be useful.

I’ve done that here, actually – if you want to see the demo. It’s the text above Penguin

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#3

I think there’s already a topic about this.

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#4

Many topics like this have been made, but nice topic

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#5

but isn’t that what global variables are?
And yeah there’rem’nyt’p’csl’kethis

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#6

I didn’t see a topic like this. Could you link one.

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#7

Basically the same
@Nameless_gamer

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#8

That’s pretty different, actually.

A global variable refers something every user can access separately rather than joining a session to access. You could in theory make multiplayer with this, but that’s not the idea.

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#10

Ok but I wasn’t talking about that topic

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#11

It’s similar but there are no servers. It’s just ppl that can see the same data that auto updates.

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#12

Oh so there is only one server
Oh wait I read the op wrong
So like it’s separate but people’s data will be shown on screen
Or other peoples things
So u can code a search bar to see others

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#13

I know – and there are some good ones too – but I don’t recall any with this much clarity or detail, especially given that this has a nice sketchup too.

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#14

Imagine you are playing Color rush (Platformer) (leaderboard updated) by Rapterdragon_83🐉 and you got a sweet new high score so you tell the creator. Then the creator has to go into his/her project and edit it. That can take a lot of time especially if lots of ppl are playing and getting new high scores. So the game updates itself each time a new high score is gotten. Lots of arcade games do this so they don’t have to keep going in the code and risk breaking it.

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#15

Yeah I know what u mean

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#16

Oh wow that’s cool.

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The Hopscotch Webplayer
#17

Yes definitely

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#18

Yes totally agree.
My Platformer is on excellent so i can’t update it constantly so I have to do it every too weeks. But if there is this variable then I don’t have to spend my tame writing down scores and alway updating my Platformer!

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#19
Would this be helpful?
  • Yes
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  • I don’t know
  • Accidental vote

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#20

The only thing I’m afraid of is if they make this variable then it will only be available to subscribers.

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#21

It prob will only be available to subscribers like the player variables. But it would still be really useful.

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