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Hi guys,

I see most of the impact games using something similar to a gamepad using the touchbutton plugin. For the game I am building, it would be better to be able to send touch events or something similar directly to an entity. If we think of a game like a match 3 game where the player clicks game pieces then we can all agree that from a player point of view, interacting directly with the piece is better than interacting with a virtual gamepad controller.

I failed to find documentation on how to handle taps on entities. I see a lot about mouse and keyboard input but I need touch input, can someone point me in the correct direction?

What is the best strategy to handle touch input directly on entities?

thanks for all the help
andre

You're going to have to capture the click-event, and do something with it. Chances are you will loop through all entities which you consider "clickable", check if the click-event happened within the entity bounding-box, and if so, then you know the entity was clicked and something should happen to it.

Some information on how to do that here.

Thank you Joncom,

I was afraid this was the only way. :-)

I will try to wrap this into a plugin if there is no other way, then other developers may benefit.