It compiled and it is still wrong

My score always stays at zero

This page is part of Intro to Java with Greenfoot. It assumes you have reached lesson 3.8. Opening it is not counted against you and is not tracked as progress.

What it actually means

The score variable is declared inside act(), so it is rebuilt from scratch every frame and never remembers anything.

The usual causes

Ranked by how often each one turns out to be the answer. Work down the list.

1. The declaration is inside act(). Every frame starts by setting it back to zero.
2. The variable is declared inside an if block, so it disappears when the block ends.
3. The score is being displayed from a different object than the one counting.