help with animations and stuff

[mr-game]

ive making a side scroling game basic and i made it so when he presses space he holds his sword out but how do i make an enimy who touches that animation only die but when he goes back to like walking left and they toutch it they dont die
hope u understand and can guess my spelling mistakes

[Sgt. Sparky]

make a var called stab,
on the attacking key, stab = 1;
on the release stab = 0;
when the enemys collide with the play and stab is = to 1,
they are hurt ect.
when they hit em' and stab is 0. the player is hurt

[DilloDude]

I prefer to do this with a separate sword actor. That way you don't have it where you are swining your sword, and the enemy hits you in the back and dies.

[Sgt. Sparky]

you can set up x, and yscreen stuff