This is the first mixed signal circuit video game that I am making.

This game is basically reverse tag. In order to win, a player must become “It” and collide with the opposing player.

A player becomes “It” by hitting the pendelum at its lowest point with a button press,
the player who has been the closest to hitting the pendulum at its lowest point stays as the “It” player.

I thought of the idea to make this game from trying to think of a simple game that consisted of mostly collision detection.

The absolute values of the difference in coordinates are taken in order to eliminate the possibility of a zero detected due to polarity change.

abs_xdiff = | x_p2 – x_p1 |

abs_ydiff = | y_p2 – y_p1 |

diff_sum = abs_xdiff + abs_ydiff

diff_sum is zero only if the coordinates of the 2 players are the exact same i.e. xdiff = 0 and ydiff = 0.

Collision Detection in action.

Link: https://github.com/adct-the-experimenter/ms-circuit-video-game/tree/main/games/switched-tag