I'm trying to make a game that is based on how many objects have spawned

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#1

For instance if you get to 10 balls spawned, then something happens, and if you get to 30 balls spawned then something else will happen.

I have a timer that goes to my ball spawning function five times and this function also has “bs = bs +1”
(at the very beginning I put bs = 0). So I’m thinking from what I learned that this should keep track of all the objects spawned through that one function. Now I made a separate function saying if(bs == 5) then physics.start () or whatever I need but for some reason it doesn’t work. I put up the main segment of my code that the problem should be in.
Greatly appreciating any help.

[lua]
local function gameOperator ()
if (bs == 5) then
local physics = require “physics”
physics.start()
physics.addBody( ball, “dynamic”, { density=3.0, friction=0.5, bounce=0.3 } )
end

end

local function ballSpawn ()
local ball = display.newImageRect (“ball_blue.png”, 100,100)
ball:setReferencePoint (display.CenterReferencePoint)
ball.x = math.random (50, _W - 50); ball.y = math.random (50, _H -400)

function ball:touch(e)
if(ready == true) then
if (e.phase == “ended”) then
clickedBall (self)

end

end

return true;

end

– increase bs every time balls are spawned

bs = bs + 1

ball: addEventListener (“touch”, ball)

ready = true

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#2

are you calling the gameOperator() function ever?
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#3

You need a Runtime to keep track of the gameOperator function.
I assume you declared the bs before you created the gameOperator function.

[lua]local bs = 0
– I prefer to create the object before I create the function

local gameOpertor = function()

if bs == 5 then
print(“do something”)
end
end

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