Breakout problemo...

[Insectoid]

I am currently working on making the game Breakout and I am having some sprite issues.

All of the bricks in the game are sprites (just for the heck of it) and I am using arrays to initialize/place/check if hit. This of course leads to problems with checking for collisions with freed sprites. I devised a way to skip over the sprites that have been freed, though it seems to be faulty.

The code is a mess right now (still in the early stages of the game) so if you can't figure it out, I forgive you.

Oh, and I know I could have used records.

Turing:

for boxhit : 1 .. numberofboxes                 if boxhitnumber > numberofboxes then             boxhitnumber := 1 %resets to 1 after checking every box         end if         loop % the problem area. Should always skip sprites that hae been freed.             exit when nobox (boxhitnumber) ~= boxhitnumber             boxhitnumber += 1         end loop         if ballx > boxx (boxhitnumber) and ballx < boxx (boxhitnumber) + 30 and                 bally >= boxy (boxhitnumber) then             ballvert *= -1             nobox (boxhitnumber) := boxhit             Sprite.Free (boxes (boxhitnumber))             remaining -= 1         end if     boxhitnumber += 1 %This number is manipulated, so I can't use 'boxhit'         end for