Is there a clever way to program this?

After burning my brain a little bit I finally got some good results with my code.

To give you guys a context:

The player must collect the "eggs" that are at the screen. When the player touches an egg, it starts following the player.

Touching a second egg, it follows the first egg, the third follows the second, etc.

But I feel that there is a way to do some refactoring to the "Follow Player" part, but I have no idea how to do it. So I'm here to ask you guys, what can I do to improve it?

The code, so far:

<img src="http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a126/shinobi_br/my_code_zps4c48e0ea.jpg" border="0" />

Here's the demo: dl.dropbox.com/u/12937330/follow_test/index.html

Thanks in advance!

I tried this last time you posted, but the result was kind of wonky.

Not perfect this time around either, but definitely better than last time:

EggFollow.capx (r114)

Yeah, the eggs are going too smoothly, it's weird. I don't have any ideas on how to solve this matter. Is there any other thing that you noticed?

Just saw your .capx, thanks for your time man. =)

It works nice for a top-down view, as you suggested with your, but my game is a side scroller.

Regardless, now I can see clearly how I could simplify the "following" code! Thanks a lot for the tip!

Here's one example of followers in a platformer. It saves the players position to a queue and positions the first follower to say 10 positions ago, the second 20 and so forth.

http://www.scirra.com/forum/eek-slowdown_topic46528.html

Thanks man, that is exactly what I want to do!

Already got the .capx, I'll try to study it.

Thanks H0j0hound, took a good look on what you did on that .capx and adapted it to my game. It worked like a charm! But it's ok to use a code based on what you made?

Certainly, you can use it. Most, if not all of the capx I post are free to use.