I need help with random placement outside of edge of enemy in a game

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I am having trouble with the placement of the zombie enemy in a new game i am making called Defender. The main objective of the game is to shoot the zombies and kill them so they don't get too close to you. I am still in the early stages of the game but i have already encountered a problem. The problem is with the placement of the zombies. I don't know how to get the clone of the zombies to start outside of the edge and i am asking for some help from the community to solve this issue.

With my low level of coding knowledge i have no idea how to solve this problem.
Any feedback would help!

Here is a link to the game

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Isn't it just
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(with whatever position you want them at)?

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Yes but the thing is that i need them to go to a random position outside of the edge. The problem is, I don't know how to do that. I am not trying to get all the clones to go to a specific place on the map.

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Here's my solution. This makes it so they always spawn at a random position outside the stage.

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The distance variable is so you can quickly specify the distance from the stage you want them to spawn. I set it to 20 just for demonstration purposes.

Here's the project with this new code Snap! Build Your Own Blocks

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Thank you so much for the help! It is really appreciated.

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Long time no see (outside of school, of course)!
Also, is this the same zombie game you were making this morning? Because it kinda looks like it.
If so, I thought I told you I could help you tmr!

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Sry I just needed help with that one issue i already fixed i have some ideas that you can help me with tho.

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Hey i have one more issue with your fix, i was going to ask is you know why all of the zombies are only spawning on the top and the bottom of the screen.
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It's because of this block here, you're picking the top or bottom for your Y coordinate for zombies

You can fix by randomly picking from a range or something like that

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Alright, the issue is fixed, thanks everybody for your help!

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In my script, the top half is setting the y, then the x, the second part (the else part) sets the x, then the y.

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Thanks i realized my fault and fixed it

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