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[gollymrme]

Hello AGS friends! I need help with a game I'm working on...I want to create a quick game called Fortune Cookie where the player hits a hot spot to reveal a random text fortune. Maybe have 20 different fortunes set and have Ags pick one at random, then reset to be able to pick another one when you click the hot spot again. Any suggestions for a 'just starting out' game creator? Your friend and mine, Ryan

[Mouth for war]

you should check out the "random" function if I understand you right

[Lt. Smash]

I would suggest you to create a list, a so-called "one-dimensional array", with all the different fortunes:

Code: ags

String _fortune[20];
_fortune[0] = "Tonight you will find new love";
_fortune[1] = "Stay with your wife"; 
...

And then in the hotspots on_click you can randomly choose one string:

Code: ags

int ran = Random(19);
Display(_fortune[ran]);