Adafruit_Arcada' does not name a type; I am trying to program an adafruit pygamer (which says it's compatible with Arduino). I have added the ZIP folder for the library into the library folder om my PC where all of my folders are supposed to be stored, one thing I managed to find out for a start was that the library folder for the library itself that was installed from GitHub contained a dash in the filename so I replaced that for an underscore. The actual error message that seems to come up now is this:
'Adafruit_Arcada' does not name a type; did you mean 'Adafruit_SPITFT'?

This error comes up from when I try to use the:
#include &quot;Adafruit_Arcada.h&quot;

Adafruit_Arcada arcada;

lines
Within the library folder that I want to try and use there are the code examples within the library folder inside the examples sub-folder
I have tried following a step by step guide into one potential way of trying to solve this problem by looking at a tutorial by adafruit on how to step by step install zip folder libraries. Something tells me though that this error that I am getting is to do with one of the .h or .cpp files within the library itself.
The link for the library itself is here: https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Arcada
In addition, when I look in the Adafruit_Arcada.h file I can actually see that there is no Adafruit_Arcada class but there is an Adafruit_SPITFT one. I know this point might seem like a bit of a no-brainer but I just thought it would be useful to try and find out what could potentially be going on and provide evidence of what I have already tried to do.
When I changed the Adafruit_Arcada arcada; to Adafruit_SPITFT arcada; (thinking this could potentially resolve the issue because within the Adafruit_Arcada.h file there is a class called Adafruit_SPITFT and notAdafruit_Arcada`), this brought up another error which was the following:
simpletest:2:17: error: no matching function for call to 'Adafruit_SPITFT::Adafruit_SPITFT()'
There are some instructions at:
Pygamer setup
That need to be followed in order to permit the Arduino IDE to work with the Pygamer.  It's not clear that you have followed any or all of these instructions.
I recommend that you carefully follow ALL the steps and then start with the simple example to test that you are building and uploading properly.
Then move on to the Adafruit example that uses the Arcada library.