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Hi guys,
I'm creating a fairly simple game at the moment where I need multiple enemies to walk over my screen. As I do not want to waste hundreds of lines just to position and create my enemy sprites put the code to create and position an enemy into a loop that runs for 20 times.
For x in range(20): self.enemy = SpriteNode(textures[0]) self.enemy.size = self.size / 10 self.enemy.position = (x,y) self.add_child (self.enemy)
The idea was, that I could now control all 20 sprites with a singe command like: self.enemy.run_action(Action.move_to(x, y, time))
Well, I can't, so pythonista must be renaming the old sprite if I create a new sprite with the same name. Anyone know how the old sprite is named?

you should create a list of enemies. you keep overwriting the self.enemy variable!

self.enemies=[]
for i in range(10):
    self.enemies.append(SpriteNode(...))
   ...

for enemy in self.enemies:
    enemy.add_action(...)

also.. if you always want all enemies to move together, you can add the enemies as children of a Node. then the entire node can be positioned together