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title: "Catch objects (drop) and hit the target"
description: "Set up items and points, the basket or cursor, difficulty, paths and exits, and the countdown before the game."
url: https://scratcher.io/help/games/catch-drop-and-hit-the-target
language: en
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# Catch objects (drop) and hit the target

Set up items and points, the basket or cursor, difficulty, paths and exits, and the countdown before the game.

## Catch Objects (Drop)

Items fall from the top, and players move a basket to catch them.

**Content tab**

- **Items**: for each item, upload an **Image** and set the **Points** it gives. Use negative points for items to avoid. Turn on **Use custom splash colors** to give an item its own points splash. Click **Add item** for more.
- **Basket**: the image players move.
- **Goal**: the points needed to win.

**Settings tab**

- **Game difficulty**: **Easy**, **Medium** or **Hard**. With the add-on **Customize difficulty level**, you set the **Speed of dropping items**, **Speed variation** and **Drop interval (in ms)** yourself.
- **Icon size** and **Rotate items**, with the **Rotation direction** (**Left**, **Right** or **Random**) and **Rotation speed**.
- **Points**, **Timer** and **Countdown**. See [Finish conditions, timer and points](https://scratcher.io/help/games/finish-conditions-timer-and-points).

**Styles tab**: the game's **Background**, **Size** and **Shadow**; the **Splash** (the points shown when an item is caught: font, colors, border, shadow and **Fade out (in ms)**); and the **Basket** size.

Click **Preview** to see the items fall in the editor, and **Stop preview** to stop.

## Hit the Target (and Slice It)

Items fly across the screen, and players click them. In **Slice It**, they swipe to slice them.

**Content tab**: the **Items** with image and points, a **Catch animation** for each item, the **Cursor** image and the **Goal**.

**Settings tab**

- **Catch items by**: **Clicking** or **Slicing**.
- **Game difficulty**, or with the add-on: **Item speed**, **Next item interval** and **Max visible items**.
- **Do not show same item twice in a row** and **Rotate items**.
- **Item animation** > **Paths**: where items fly. For each path, choose the **Entry side** (left, right, top or bottom), a fixed entry position if you like, the **Section on side** (**Start**, **Middle** or **End**) and the **Section size (percentage of side)**. Make it curve with **Curve up/right** or **Curve down/left**, the **Curve percentage (of width or height)** and the **Curve percentage randomness (+- in %)**. Click **Add path** for more.
- **Path exits**: where items leave the screen. Click **Add exit** and set the **Exit side**, its position and section, and an optional name. A path can use a **Custom exit**: turn it on and **Select exits**.

Click **Preview** on a path to see it.

## Add-ons for both games

- **Countdown**: show a "3, 2, 1" countdown before the game starts. Set **Line 1**, **Line 2** and **Line 3**, the **Font**, **Text color**, **Background color** and **Count interval (in ms)** in the **Countdown** section of the **Settings** tab.
- **Finish conditions**: give different prizes or pages depending on the score.
- **Customize difficulty level**: set the speed yourself instead of Easy, Medium or Hard.

## Paths and exits in detail

A path's **Fixed entry position (0-100%)** makes all items enter at the same point on the side, instead of anywhere in the section. An exit's **Fixed exit position (0-100%)** does the same for where items leave.

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