Building a 2D Game Physics Engine: Using HTML5 and JavaScript

© Michael Tanaya, HuaMing Chen, Jebediah Pavleas and Kelvin Sung 2017

Michael Tanaya, Huaming Chen, Jebediah Pavleas and Kelvin Sung, Building a 2D Game Physics Engine, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2583-7_3

3. Incorporating Collision Detection

Michael Tanaya¹ , Huaming Chen¹, Jebediah Pavleas² and Kelvin Sung³

(1)Bothell, Washington, USA

(2)Kenmore, Washington, USA

(3)Woodinville, Washington, USA

In the context of 2D video games, the fundamentals of a physical simulation involves movements of rigid shapes, collisions of the moving shapes, and responses after the collisions. In the previous chapter, you defined the rigid shape classes and a core engine loop to support basic drawing, update operations, and simple movements of rigid shapes. In this chapter, you ...