How do I pickup, carry and release ONE object from a group

I am doing something similar to when in the zelda series Link has to carry a chicken and release it in a certain area. i have everything set and working, basically, when the player sprite overlaps the object and presses a key, the object gets pinned to the player until a key is pressed and the object is released.

the only problem is that if i happen to be overlapping two instances of the same object it picks up both, i need it to be so a player can only carry one object at a time

Thanks in advance

In the "Is overlapping" event create a sub-event "Chicken pick top instance" or "Chicken pick closest instance" and then pin it.

And of course you need to set some variable or instance variable (ChickenPickedUp=true), so then other overlapping events will be ignored.

NIce, first part is working flawlessly, does the variable need to be used as a conditional to pick the object? if variable=false pick up object? > change variable to true?

Yes. Or you can add it as a second condition to "is overlapping" event.

Player is overlapping chicken

variable=false

i must be doing something wrong, right now the conditions are:

On E pressed

X is PickedUp

player sprite is overlapping the objects sprite

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|________>object>pick nearest to (player sprite.x, player sprite.y)---> and then the actions among which is toggle PickedUp

it keeps picking up objects even if it's carrying one already.

Run your project in debug mode, see what's going on with PickedUp variable.

Instead of "toggle" try "Set PickedUp to True".

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You are setting instance variable pickedUp on a slime! Each slime has its own pickedUp variable.

When you pick one, its variable is set to true.

The next time your character is overlapping another slime which has pickedUp=false, that's why you pick up the second slime.

You should create a boolean variable on the character (Sprite2).

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