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Add attack to Sploosh platformer

I've followed the "Pico-8: Noob to Pro" course. I've nearly recreated all of the code (with a few tweaks) and decided to add an attack to the main character. I've tried that by adding this melee trick from the course, but can't get it to animate more than one frame, and it also only seems to register when I'm moving.

Below is my code. See attached screenshot for readability.

function animate_plr()

--handle animation state

if plr.state=="dead" then

plr.sp=8

--idle

elseif plr.state=="idle" then

plr.sp=1

--attack

elseif btnp(🅾️) then

plr.sp=4

--walk

elseif plr.state=="walk" then

if plr.sp<2.75 then

plr.sp+=0.25

else

plr.sp=1

end

--jump

elseif plr.state=="jump" then

plr.sp=2

end

I couldn't follow the melee trick entirely, because I haven't figured out how to embed the logic from it into above elseif statement. I was thinking to also use an "attack" state, but haven't figured out how to make that work.

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