Question

I have the collision detection down. Now, I need to find where to move the player so that he is not clipping any blocks. Once I have the collision detection, I want to move the player to the nearest open space. Is there a way to do this easily? I know I need to find the overlapping rectangle, but I don’t know how to do that. If you have any information on this post it please!

Answer 1

A very common way is to try to move the player to a position, and then see if he’s actually colliding with anything. If he isn’t, move there, else, try another location. In pseudocode:

temp_pos = player.pos + (-1, -1) #move downleft one block
if player.pos != enemy.pos: #if the position is not occupied
    player.pos = temp_pos # move the player there.
else:
    #move player to another location and try again

Basically though, I’d have a list to off all the spaces (or available directions) around the player, and loop over that, instead of hard coding all the direction by hand.