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To me, the subject looks like nonsense. I don't know the jargon, or rather, have forgotten it since not working with any sort of code for well over a year.

I wasn't sure how to search for what I wanted to know, or even how to ask this.

Is there a way to set it up so new variables or "objects" are made with some sort of serial number attached?

Let us pretend I have a game that involves collecting Easter Eggs.

If I already have:

$ eggcol = ["pink", "yellow", "blue", "purple", "green"]
$ eggsfound = []

$ Egg1 = "pink"
$ Egg2 = "blue"
$ Egg3 = "yellow"

But then what if I wanted the Easter bunny to randomly lay more eggs, or have an event that triggers laying more unique eggs? So that I don't have to type in a long list of egg1, egg2, egg3, it makes egg4, egg5, and egg6 for me when it is needed? And that it will also assign one of the listed colours to this new, unique egg? And perhaps other attributes, like "sparkly" or "hatchable" or something...

So something like... um...



At some point, the list of eggs can be viewed, and selected for more information, such as it's colour, pattern, or some other attribute.

Is this possible?

Would the following work?

$ egg%(serial)d = renpy.random("eggcol")

where $ serial is defined by a counter that constantly adds one each time there is a successful find?

I think you probably want a list here, rather than a series of variables. So you could then do:

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Ah I was imagining that might be what someone would respond with... sometime after i posted. I used a really bad example rather than saying exactly what I want to do, but I tend not liking to share exactly what I'm up to because I like being all mysterious.

But mysterious and vague people don't get help, so I'll suck it up.

What I'm doing is more complex than eggs with colours. It's rats. Rats with colours. Rats that can breed and make new rats.

What I have set up is a Rat class, with attributes I defined myself, such as colour, gender, value (because there will be buying and selling of rats). So I have this:



And then later on...



When I breed them, is there a way I can have it generate a Rat5 that pulls its attributes from defined parameters? So that it does a coin toss for gender, and then assigns either B or b depending on what the parents have? I'm doing a thing on very basic Mendellian heredity and displaying it through a game rather than a lengthy paper with a series of punnet squares.

I think the question is - how would you use Rat5 if it was defined? It's certainly possible to write the code:



but that wouldn't extend to Ratn. If you want a non-fixed number of rats, you need a list.

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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face in marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming" - Theodore Roosevelt

Rats (pun intended). Oh well.

I might try attacking this from a completely different angle. Thanks for the prompt replies!