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# Dealing Damage

This set of tutorials covers how to create enemies which can receive damage from Bullets created by the Player. Many games include enemies which can take damage from the player such as Mega Man X and Super Metroid.

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The following pages cover a number of topics related to dealing damage:

* Dynamic entity creation and destruction (Bullets)
* HP and damage amounts
* Damage over time and area of effect
* Friendly fire and teams


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