Bathroom Matters

I have this game I am working on for a client.

https://www.scirra.com/arcade/other-gam ... -game-6075

The problem is, the taps overlap sometimes. I need help with randomly positioning the holes in the wall, such that, the taps do not overlap.

Thanks you.

Hi,

there's two and more possible solutions to do this:

1) Base the tap spawning on a grid. For example if your tap sprite is 32x32 pixels, than this is the minimum distance between to taps.

2) Upon spawning a tap, check the distance of it to each other tap. With a for each loop, you can check distance (x1,y1,x2,y2) > 32. If true, proceed with the spawn. Else, reiterate.

Solution 1) is more elegant with the downside of having a fixed grid. Solution 2) lets you keep completely random positions at the cost of some calculation time.

Cheers!