How do I simulate a finger swipe?

Please keep in mind that I'm an absolute beginner with game development, and so thoroughly "right-brained" that I lean to one side when walking. I'm struggling to figure out how to simulate a finger swipe on a square sprite in the center of my layout. After two hours of tutorials and forum posts, here's what I thought would work, but no luck. any help would be appreciated.

So how do you want it to work? You touch the sprite, swipe right and the sprite should fly to the right?

You need to tell more about your game, because there are many ways to do this.

Usually i do this by checking the angle.

You need to create a couple of variables.

TouchStartX

TouchStartY

TouchEndX

TouchEndY

TouchAngle

or something similar. When touch starts you save the XY position, when Touch Ends, you save the Touch end coordinates. Then you check the save that angle from start to finish position.

When you have the angle from start to finish, you can check if the angle is between certain values, it would count as either up, down, left or right swipe.

At least that's the basic idea, i don't have any clean project with only that, but hopefully it's enough to get you going.

I put together a quick little project for you.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lwoo2tu9v8ide5l/touchSwipe.c3p?dl=1

Hope that helps :)

Added some comments as well to help you understand how it works.

So how do you want it to work? You touch the sprite, swipe right and the sprite should fly to the right?

You need to tell more about your game, because there are many ways to do this.

This concept animation will explain the game much more concisely than I can. I'm trying to figure out the very basics of what I need to do, and then "baby-step" my way through the project.

dropbox.com/s/ld932vawlrfe4zd/GameConcept.key

Sorry about that. Here's a .mp4 file that's a bit choppy but it should give you the idea.

dropbox.com/s/cpluh0iupc9k2dl/GameConcept.mp4

I was hoping it would be simple. In your opinion, is Construct 3 going to be the least difficult of the game engines to work in? My plan is to build a test model with a 3 x 3 grid of letter tiles. I'll use your suggestions and see if I can figure it out.

Do you know of a tutorial that might demonstrate similar tile movement or wrap function?

When you use construct you think dont need any code , but its not ! a simple touch gestures needs to code maybe later scirra make a behaviour for that !

When you use simulate control if you touch on scren outside of the istance the instance move and that is bad

I did a Swipe menu that move the Menu Up and Down , there are 3 methods and the first works better , you can studie it and implement in your game if you want to move in other directions

dropbox.com/s/kshhlrzfkjzdzsx/SwipeMenuWorking.c3p

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I was hoping it would be simple. In your opinion, is Construct 3 going to be the least difficult of the game engines to work in?

It's not a terribly difficult task, but it will definitely be time consuming. I don't think it will be any easier in other game engines.

Here is a quick and basic demo with swipes:

dropbox.com/s/ne9lw2f112ahk31/SwipeLettersGame.c3p

Dragging and proper wrapping will require more work.

Your demo got me very excited! I've been studying the demo and trying to apply it to a 3x3 grid of my alphabet tiles.

I have a few questions: are the columns and rows in your demo moving in unison because they are all basically duplications of a single sprite? And also, If I'm using nine unique sprites for my 3x3 grid, is there a way to establish collision behavior to "push" the rows and columns of alphabet tiles?

I'm very appreciative of your help. I'm determined to figure this out, regardless of how much time will be consumed. I've already spent a laughable amount of time getting to this point!

Maybe my video on how to make a 2048 type of game might help here?

youtu.be/Fr52zATpvok

cheers!