Create a line of monsters

Hi all,

I am trying to create a tower defense type game but I am having problems making a list of enemies appear, I'll try to explain...

What I want is there to be a line of, lets say: enemy1, enemy2, enemy1, enemy3. with a 2 second gap between them and I would like to create them from a sprite "Start".

I am able to do this with all the same enemies but I can't seem to work out how to get it to work for different ones??

Use a one-dimensional array containing a number or string for every enemy type.

If you don't understand arrays, it won't make much sense, but if you do, you will see what I mean.

I did try that but I couldn't seem to work out how to run through the list to create a different creature each time with a gap of 2sec.

You can use a single object with multiple instances.

You just define the differences between the enemies using instance variables, and animations.

I'd do something like this.

Make an array, each entry corresponding to a monster type.

Then try something like:

global variable monsterIndex = 0

every 2 seconds:

if array.at(monsterIndex) = "zombie"

--> create zombie

if array.at(monsterIndex) = "ghost"

--> create ghost

if array.at(monsterIndex) = "squid"

--> create squid

(etc, for all the monsters)

Add 1 to monsterIndex

Do you see what I'm getting at?

Excellent, I hadn't thought about using the variable as the array ref.