Python animation game

Question

Using python, if I wanted to make two shapes interact with each other, how would I do that?

I am trying to make a simple game from scratch using if/elif/else.

What I have done so far is created a mouse that will move randomly across the panel to try to get to the other side. On the opposite side of the screen, I have created a box to try and block the mouse from reaching the other side.

What I am trying to do is when the mouse runs into the box, it will deflect and head in a random opposite direction. I can't figure out how to get the mouse to deflect and run away. The mouse always runs right through my box.

Answer 1

I don't know what exactly how to do this in whatever framework you are using but you usually would need some sort of bounding box collision detection. Like say we have a class Mouse and a class Box which describe the mouse and box objects. Then we can do something like

def check_collision(mouse, box):

if mouse.x < box.x + box.width and mouse.y < box.y + box.height \

and mouse.x > box.x and mouse.y > box.y:

return True

return False