Workshop › Mario-style Platformer › Step 29 of 37

Falling into a pit

What we are doing

A player who falls below the level loses a life. The corner now shows the lives too.

```js
if (player.y > ROWS * TILE) {
  die()
  return
}

ctx.fillText('Coins: ' + collected + '   Lives: ' + lives, 12, 26)
```

What it means

• ROWS * TILE is the bottom of the level (352). Below it: die().
• return leaves update at once: after die everything was rebuilt, so the rest of this frame's update is skipped.

Your turn

1. In update, after the coin loop, leave an empty line and write the pit check.
2. In draw, extend the counter text with ' Lives: ' + lives.

Skills: Game states

← Lives and a fresh start Enemies hurt →

All steps

1. The sky
2. A level made of text
3. Draw the tiles
4. What is solid?
5. Is a box touching anything?
6. Find the start
7. Draw the player
8. Gravity
9. Landing on tiles
10. Which keys are held?
11. Speed up
12. Friction
13. Walls
14. Jump
15. Bump your head
16. Short hops
17. A few frames of grace
18. Coyote time
19. A camera that follows
20. Stop at the ends
21. Draw only what is on screen
22. Coins
23. Collect them
24. Count, and screen versus world
25. Enemies
26. Enemies that walk
27. Do not walk off ledges
28. Lives and a fresh start
29. Falling into a pit
30. Enemies hurt
31. Stomp!
32. Squashed enemies are gone
33. Game over
34. Play again
35. The flag
36. Reach the flag
37. Build it yourself: jump buffering