You're not giving them different names, you're just creating a variable.
It's no different from saying:
And
They're both going to print the same thing. Just because you called the variables something different doesn't change anything.
If you only want to update enemies of a certain type, you're going to need to have a field within the type which stores the type of the enemy, and then check it when updating.
Etc.
I should possibly point out that BlitzMax would make this much easier, as it not only allows you to create your own collections of objects so you could have a list for each enemy type, but it also features inheritance, so you could have trolls and griffons extend a base enemy type, allowing you to cycle through a list of all enemies and still only pick out the enemies of a certain type.
It's no different from saying:
Open in online IDEFor Even=0 to 9 Print Even Next
And
For Odd=0 To 9 Print Odd Next
They're both going to print the same thing. Just because you called the variables something different doesn't change anything.
If you only want to update enemies of a certain type, you're going to need to have a field within the type which stores the type of the enemy, and then check it when updating.
Const ENEMYTYPE_GRIFFON=1 Const ENEMYTYPE_TROLL=2 For MyEnemy.Enemy=Each Enemy If MyEnemy\Type=ENEMYTYPE_GRIFFON End If If MyEnemy\Type=ENEMYTYPE_TROLL End If Next
Etc.
I should possibly point out that BlitzMax would make this much easier, as it not only allows you to create your own collections of objects so you could have a list for each enemy type, but it also features inheritance, so you could have trolls and griffons extend a base enemy type, allowing you to cycle through a list of all enemies and still only pick out the enemies of a certain type.