The Dink Network

How would I find out if a sprite exists and then manipulate it? Like "is there a sprite at x/y and if there is then move it around".

The only way that comes to mind is shooting a missile at that x/y and then using &missile_target but that seems a bit messy, not to mention prone to bugs. Is there an easier way?

You could give it a unique brain and use get_sprite_with_this_brain() to check for it.

Trouble is that it's a random sprite to start with and also keeps changing so I can't keep track of it with anything like that.

I would spawn an invisible missile with only one frame at that area as you suggested.

You could let a loop check all the brains you want to check for and compare their X/Y coordinates. Definitely a much more suitable solution than the missile

How is the sprite conceived? You could add a global variable for the sprite and then tell the main script for the random sprite to put &current_sprite into the global, which you can then use anywhere.