Can anyone help me with my breakout game?

The game is posted on my account, called experimental breakout. I have posted the source file as well. The game is supposed to end when there are no balls on the screen. Breaking a red brick will spawn another ball. But as of right now, the game is randomly ending. Can anyone help me?

After playing around with breakpoints in debug mode, I see that the ballonscreen variable is not always accurate. I will keep looking to see why.

I see that ballonscreen never goes above 2, even when there are three balls on the screen. Perhaps that leads to the issue.

I see that ballonscreen never goes above 2, even when there are three balls on the screen. Perhaps that leads to the issue.

okay thank you. is there another way of going about tracking the balls?

I have a couple suggestions of what you could try:

First, maybe replace Ball2 in event 29 with just a regular ball, and make the ballonscreen variable go up when a ball spawns. Next, instead of the is onscreen/trigger once stuff, just test for when a ball is destroyed and decrease ballonscreen by one each time.

thank you so much you really helped i appreciate it :)