Text Tricks

Change how speech bubbles look
You can change the shape of the speech bubble using this set bubble block, so it looks like your character is thinking, shouting, and more. Click th...
Speak on command
You can use all kinds of Events to control how and when your characters speak. Here’s code that makes a prospector shout “Eureka” when he discovers go...
Draw text on screen
You can use the Pen blocks to draw text on the screen. The text could be instructions to help people play your games or something else entirely. How y...
Set a label with the "my actor name” block
You can also set a label on an actor. This is code that gives a label to a button. Notice the trick in the code: We use the my actor name block. Cod...
Make a scoreboard
Make a game with variables? Here's a scoreboard that shows the player the current value of score and health variables. The scoreboard will dynamic...
The ask and answer blocks
Tynker makes it easy for you to ask the user questions, using the ask block. After using it, you can return whatever the user entered using the spec...
Give the user a choice
You can also offer your players a choice between two or more answers with this special block, ask with choices . Notice how you can add more than two...
Poetry generator
Here’s a project that generates poetry with computer code. Can you figure out how to make it? Each time you click, you receive a unique poem. Of cours...