Need some help setting up a basic Mob Spawner in my Java game :)

[Delta517]

Hi! So I'm currently working on my first game in java, and I'm trying to create a basic mob spawner in it

What I have done so far, is that I created a If statement, in the Enemy class I made, that uses a Random number generator to check if it should spawn something (Im considering making it time based, since I want the game to get progressively harder).

The problem is that for every mob it's supposed to create, I have to manually make a different object for it (Ex Enemy1, Enemy2....), which makes it really time consuming (and probably very CPU consuming).

That's why I wondered if there is some other way to do this? Maybe storing them in arrays or something if thats possible Thanks in advance

 

[Issac]

My first thought would be to make enemy objects and store them in arrays, just like you say.