On: Game Mechanic Explorer – examples for game mechani...

[xvedejas]

A suggestion, assuming the author reads HN: One very basic game mechanic that is so far missing is strategies for collision detection. I would be quite interested to see interactive examples (and code examples) that do a good job of covering that topic.

[rmb177 → xvedejas]

I found the following tutorials on collision helpful:

http://www.wildbunny.co.uk/blog/2011/04/06/physics-engines-f...

http://www.wildbunny.co.uk/blog/2011/04/20/collision-detecti...

[jcromartie → xvedejas]

Collision detection is not a game mechanic...

[xvedejas → jcromartie]

It's not a gameplay mechanic, sure, but it's a mechanic used when coding games, which seems to be the point of the website anyway.