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Happy birthday, Pumaman! Thanks for AGS.

Pappy Ponchday, Ponch

Papa

The Hunt for Blue October

[faerieevenstar]

Happy birthday, faerieevenstar! May you receive many new adventure games to review on your blog.

Yes! Finally! Someone guessed it. Okay, great. Your turn.

Hmmm... some good guesses so far, but it looks like you could use another hint. Unfortunately, there's not that much more to the game.

[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/OtbUpkp.png[/imgzoom]

Based on a popular children's television programme.

Looks like 60s stuff. Is it one of those early Kurt Russell films?

Is the "DD" in the second screenshot a clue as to the name of the game?

Yes.

Here's another screenshot. Hopefully it's a clue. If you're still stuck, I have an even more obvious one

[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/0GYOd2K.png[/imgzoom]

I'd recognise that low poly awfulness anywhere. (The public telephone helped.)

[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/R9uooJO.png[/imgzoom]

Simon the Sorcerer 3D?

Bill and Ted's Excellent Golf

Correct, it's Word Rescue! Well done, cacaro.

Back to the edutainment titles we go:

[imgzoom]http://i.imgur.com/WiDvTxc.png[/imgzoom]

Vera Cruz

Something about turnips?

Saints Row?

[{{}, {}, {}}]

There's no such thing as a formal array in Lua, but you can use a table like an array (untested):

Code: lua

local snowflake = {{}, {}, {}} -- 3 snowflakes

function love.load() -- Not sure which engine you're using
	for index = 1, #snowflake
		snowflake[index].x = 5 -- starting positions
		snowflake[index].y = 5
	end
end

function love.update()
	for index = 1, #snowflake
		snowflake[index].x = snowflake[index].x + math.random(-5, 5)
		snowflake[index].y = snowflake[index].y + 1
	end
end

Tables are used for everything in Lua. Arrays, associative arrays, classes, even switch statements. The key concept here is probably "#snowflake" which gets you the number of items (actually the highest integer index for a table).

Comma is how you separate multiple items in a table definition. Also note that if you just comma separate a list, i.e. {{}, {}, {}}, Lua will automatically number them 1, 2 and 3. It's the equivalent of {[1] = {}, [2] = {}, [3] = {}}. To reference a table value by its key (or indeed access an element inside an array), you use square brackets [].

I've intentionally avoided metatables and classes. If you decide to use a class library (or roll your own), you could get fancy by making a Snowflake class and formalise the snowflake objects. But as you can see, simple snowflake objects that just store x and y are easily accomplished using Lua's flexible table system.

Mafia?