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Ok, I see.  How did you know about the "lastCreatedSprite" variable?  It doesn't show up in dropdown lists or anything and I didn't see it in the documentation.  I'm wondering if there other such variables I might want to use.  Is there any documentation for them somewhere or do you just have to "know" about them (maybe by looking at the generated code?).  Another example of such a variable is "state", which is a member of Sprite.

Let's say I'm defining a plan for a layer.  Under certain conditions the plan will add a new enemy sprite using AddSpriteAtPlan.  I would like to then set certain Parameters on the sprite.  And I would like to do so in the rules for the plan (not the rules for the sprite).  So after calling AddSpriteAtPlan, I think I want to call SelectTargetSprite.  But what value do I give for the "Index"?

 

Is it possible to set the size of the game window?  If so, where do I do that?  Also, is it possible to make the generated game run in full-screen mode?    Thanks.

Hmm, very strange.  I tried adding in all those rules again this morning and now it works as expected.  Don't know why, but I'm happy now.  As for what led me to SGDK2, I used to make games in high school (early 80's).  Back then we didn't use graphics yet - it was all done with creative use of special ASCII characters.  Sounds lame but it was a lot of fun and the games were pretty fun to play.  I've always wanted to go back and do that again but with modern graphics, sound etc.  Building a game directly on top of DirectX was more than I wanted to bite off however, so I started looking for a framework or development kit of some kind.  Googled for "Game Development Kit" and voila, found your program.  It is exactly what I was looking for.  Glad to see so much activity on this site too.  Thanks for doing this!