How to make appear a random letter

donrojas76

Hi.

I´m working in my new educational app, a game to learn the alphabet.
It will be some kind of carnival game, like throwing a ball against a duck. In each level there will be 4 letters, one will be the right answer and three will be wrong.

The problem is that if the player fail, i´d like to change the letters, all but the right one, and the order.

I don´t know how to do it. I don´t even know if it can be done.

If you know how it work or have any advice, i´ll be happy to know it.

Thanks.

gyroscope

Hi @donrojas76 Welcome to the Forums. :-)

This sounds just right for Tables... how experienced are you with Tables, can I ask? If you don't know about them yet, I'll only confuse you by suggesting a way to sort your prob. using tables....

So maybe learn about them and when you understand the basic principles, I or another member will give you the solution. :-)

http://gshelper.com/shop/free-templates-and-tutorials/intro-to-tables-in-gamesalad-video-tutorial/

http://cookbook.gamesalad.com/tutorials/2/parts/25

DepressedPanda

Here, I made you an example game on how to accomplish random letters from a database. If you need any further help with my templates/code I do offer paid one on one help via Skype (or any other communication method) for very reasonable rates.

DepressedPanda

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donrojas76

Hi again.
I made it, thank to both of you, of course.

Now it´s really basic, but the mechanics are just perfect.

I used the tutorials that gyroscope recommended (actually some more, I didn´t know about tables…) to achieve the random bottoms and followed Panda´s example.

Now I have to work in the rest of the game, the artistic part (it wont be a problem).

It will be a free little app to lear the alphabet. I´ll show you as soon as I finish it.

Game Salad is really powerful using tables. I´m really surprised about the possibilities.

Thanks a lot!!!

DepressedPanda

You are very welcome. Don't forget to post your game when it's finished!