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is this right?
var ents = ig.game.entities;
var len = ents.length;
for(var i = 0;i<len;i++){
ents[i].kill();
}

any more simple way?

What are you hoping to do?

or you could load a new level

Not sure this will work but you can try

ig.game.entities.forEach(kill);

var ents = ig.game.entities;
var len = ents.length;
for(var i = 0;i<len;i++){
ents[i].kill();
}

^^^ This code worked well for me.

How could I exclude the player entity?
I'd like to have his corpse visible over the "Game Over" entity.

var ents = ig.game.entities;
var len = ents.length;
for(var i = 0;i<len;i++){
	if (ents[i] != playerEntityRef)  {
		ents[i].kill();
	}
}

I'm currently having a similar issue, basically I want to kill all entities that extend a base entity.

			var inGameEntities = this.getEntitiesByType( 'EntityIngame' );
			var inGameEntititesLen = inGameEntities.length;
			
			for (var i = -1; i <= inGameEntititesLen; i++){
					var ent = inGameEntities[i];
					ent.kill();
			}

But i'm getting a "Cannot call method 'kill' of undefined" error. What am I missing?

EDIT

Seems that my brain needed more coffee before I went into optimization frenzy. The following code works properly.

			var inGameEntities = this.getEntitiesByType( 'EntityIngame' );
			var inGameEntititesLen = inGameEntities.length -1;
			
			for (var i = 0; i <= inGameEntititesLen; i++){
					var ent = inGameEntities[i];
					ent.kill();
			}

Why are you starting at -1? inGameEntities[-1] is invalid and will end up being an error.

Quote from Graphikos
Why are you starting at -1? inGameEntities[-1] is invalid and will end up being an error.

My logic was "Why should I substract from the length if I could start counting from -1 instead?"

Obviously I need more coffee :-p Thanks mate!