How do I get selected sprites to add to global variable?

C3! How the heck are ya?

In my little project, I want to have the sprites with animation 1 showing to add to totalups (global number) or add 1 to totaldowns (global number) for animation 2. That works but it seems no matter how many sprites I have showing animation 1 or 2, the rate that the number goes up is the same.

I'm including the scaled down, simplified version of what I'm using in my project since I was able to replicate my coding inability.

I appreciate any and all help/suggestions.

Your current conditions are saying if any sprite exists with animation1 set then add 1 and the same for animation2 so I imagine they just increase by 1 every 1 seconds. The fix for this is actually to replace add 1 with add sprite.pickedcount. Pickedcount is the number of sprites currently set to that animation.

Pickedcount is the total number of instances that you picked, so in this event it is the number of instances with animation frame 1 and in the second event the number of instances with animation frame 2. That's what you wanted, right? To add the total number of instances that matched.