Reset program after the condition is met

[Arthon]

Hello

For a school project I'm making a arcade game. I've never worked with arduino before so I barely know how to work with the program.

I'm trying to make a program where the scoreboard counts up everytime a point gets scored.
When the max score is reached, I want to reset the scoreboard to 0 so the game is ready to play again. I've been able to program the count up function but I don't know how to reset the program when the max score have been reached.

Can anyone help me with this please ?

Here you see my program so far.

As you can see I've been trying to reset by bringing the counter value back to 0 but this doesn't work at all. I know my program isn't the best you've seen, but I hope someone can help me out with this.

Thank you in advance.

[gcjr]

could you post the entire program as text, not an image. after pasting, select the code and select the "</>" icon so that it's listed as code without UTF characters

[paulpaulson]

Hello,
does the compiler generates errorless a program ?

[droopsnoot]

I'm new to Arduino, but I can't imagine you can do this:

Y+A+Z = 0;

and I'd be surprised if it compiled without errors.

You need to set each individual variable to zero.

[killzone_kid]

Try

Y=A=Z=0;

[lastchancename]

You need to reset the counters... not just the accumulated totals YAZ.
Yes, there are better ways to do what you want, but you’re learning - that’s good !

[Arthon]

#include <LiquidCrystal.h>
int button1=8;
int button2=13;
int button3=9;
int val1;
int val2;
int val3;
int count1;
int count2;
int count3;
int press;
int Y;
int A;
int Z;

const int rs = 12, en = 11, d4 = 5, d5 = 4, d6 = 3, d7 = 2;
LiquidCrystal lcd(rs, en, d4, d5, d6, d7);

void setup() {
  lcd.begin(16, 2);
  pinMode(button1,INPUT);
  pinMode(button2,INPUT);
  pinMode(button2,INPUT);
}

void loop() {
  val1=digitalRead(button1);
  val2=digitalRead(button2);
  val3=digitalRead(button3);
  if(val1==HIGH){
    press=count1++;
    Y=press*250;
    delay(250);
  }  
  if(val2==HIGH){
    press=count2++;
    A=press*100;
    delay(250);
  }   
  if(val3==HIGH){
    press=count3++;
    Z=press*500;
    delay(250);
  }
  if((Y+A+Z)>=2000){
    Y=A=Z=0;
    count1=count2=count3=0;
    
  }
  lcd.setCursor(0, 0);
  lcd.print("Button Count");
  lcd.setCursor(0, 1);
  lcd.print(Y+A+Z);

}

[Arthon]

I'm able to simulate the program so I think it's errorless.
(I only use 2 buttons here just to simulate)

[lastchancename]

Now try it with switch() case logic.
Also you can break out the common code...
delay() because it’s common to all the conditions.

[Arthon]

This is my program so far by following your sugestions but I'm not there yet.
The score that has to be reached is 2000. As you can see there are 3 different points to score (100,250,500). When I'm at 1750 points, and I score +500 points, the score would be 2250 but the max is set on 2000. If my program worked as it should, the count value should be brought back to 0 and the game should be ready to play again.
What happens right now is when I reach for example 2250 points, the lcd shows me 0250. If i continue to play, the score counts up with an extra digit. So instead of +500, the counter goes up with 5000 points. I've been looking for solutions for hours but it's not that simple because I don't really know where the problem is.

(I hope my information about the problem is clear enough)

#include <LiquidCrystal.h>
int button1=8;
int button2=13;
int button3=9;
int val1;
int val2;
int val3;
int count;
int press;


const int rs = 12, en = 11, d4 = 5, d5 = 4, d6 = 3, d7 = 2;
LiquidCrystal lcd(rs, en, d4, d5, d6, d7);

void setup() {
  lcd.begin(16, 2);
  pinMode(button1,INPUT);
  pinMode(button2,INPUT);
  pinMode(button2,INPUT);
}

void loop() {
  val1=digitalRead(button1);
  val2=digitalRead(button2);
  val3=digitalRead(button3);
  
 
  delay(200);
  
  switch(count >= 2000){
    default:
  if(val1==HIGH)
  {
    press=count;
    count = count +250; 
  }  
 
  if(val2==HIGH)
  {
    press=count;
    count= count +500; 
  }   
  
  if(val3==HIGH)
  {
    press=count;
    count= count +100; 
  }
  break;
  
 case 1: 
  {count= 0;
   
   break;   
  }
  }
   lcd.setCursor(0, 0);
  lcd.print("Button Count");
  lcd.setCursor(0,1);
  lcd.print(count);
}

[TomGeorge]

Hi, @Arthon
I can see you are just over printing your count on the LCD.
This means if you print a four digit number then a three digit number, the fourth digit will not change.
What you do is before you update the number, print blanks in its place, like below.

  lcd.setCursor(0, 0);
  lcd.print("Button Count");
  lcd.setCursor(0, 1);
  lcd.print("     ");
  lcd.setCursor(0, 1);
  lcd.print(Y+A+Z);

See if that helps.

I am not sure if your switch.. case formatting is correct.

Tom...

[Arthon]

Thank you! I didn't knew the solution would be so "easy' but my program finaly works
I have no errors so I think the switch...case works, else it's just pure luck the program still works as I hoped it would.