Programming for Game Design: A Hands-On Guide with Godot

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W. Wang, T. WalcottProgramming for Game Designhttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0190-7_15

15. Hitting Enemies with Projectiles

Wallace Wang¹   and Tonnetta Walcott²

(1)

San Diego, CA, USA

(2)

El Cajon, CA, USA

 

Once you have a player you can control and a way to fire projectiles, the next step involves hitting enemies with a projectile. This involves creating an enemy, detecting when a collision occurs between a projectile and an enemy, and then removing both the projectile and the enemy afterward. By removing the enemy, the enemy is eliminated in the game.

First, you must create an enemy as a separate scene, which consists of multiple nodes. One node defines ...