Here's a challenge for you. Set a timer for 15 minutes and try and make some kind of game or piece of a game. It doesn't have to be good. It doesn't have to make sense. It's just for practice. Bonus points if there's something to look at, though. :) Take 15 minutes and mess around and post what you make as a reply to this post! ---- Here's my entry.... WEENER SHOOTER (lol) So this isn't so much a game as a beginning of a game or a component of a game. Basically, there is a gun that you can move back and forth that floats on the bottom of the screen, and it shoots hot dogs towards the top of the screen. This is kind of in preparation for something like a Space Invaders type of game. Pretty much how it works is during the init function, there is a table called dogs that's made, and that's what holds all of the bullets. Every time I press the X button, it spawns a new particle inside of the table. Each particle has an X, a Y, and a speed property. If I had more time, I would add some kind of variance to the speed. The particle starts in the same X position as the gun and it has a constant speed going up. When the particles leave the screen at the top, they disappear. Basically, they're just deleted from the table if their y-value is less than negative 8. I was just about to make a enemy system when I ran out of time. Definitely a fun exercise. Highly recommend this 15 minute challenge.