How to make a hitbox?

[Kasperelo]

Hi!

NOTE: I'm a noob that started 10 hours ago programming, so don't laugh!
MESSAGE: Can anyone PLEASE tell how to make hitboxes? I'm trying to make
a game where you control a mouse and you're getting followed by red dots that
you need to avoid. The problem is, I need to make a hitbox for the buttons on
the start-screen and the red dots / the mouse, so when they collide it says "Game
Over!"

Thx!
-Kasperelo

[Robin]

Could you upload a .love of what you have so far? See Game_Distribution if you don't know how that works.

[Kasperelo]

Well, right now I have only made the start screen...

[Codex]

You may want to try this,

https://love2d.org/wiki/BoundingBox.lua

or this tutorial

https://love2d.org/wiki/Tutorial:Gridlocked_Player

[NanoSpace]

If you still have trouble there's a guy named Goature who's making some tutorials, He made a video specifically to Hitboxes

[Kasperelo]

I'm watching that video right now!
I didn't quite understand the episodes where
he explained entities.lua...

[NanoSpace]

I'm watching that video right now!
I didn't quite understand the episodes where
he explained entities.lua...

I think all an entity is..is code that you would group together, for example Minecraft. If you looked at the code, you would see that there's a SkeletonEntity, ZombieEntity, SpiderEntity, etc. If you look into the entities then it has all the code that relates to Skeletons, Zombies, and Spiders. Epic way to be organized by the way.

[Kasperelo]

I mean, I didn't understand the coding/codes. He didn't explain good enough and
wnet too fast on to new functions and mathematical equations and other stuff.

[NanoSpace]

Example of what you didn't understand?

[Kasperelo]

Everything with the ents.randomStuff!