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I noticed that whenever my player touches an enemy the health bar simply goes all the way down to 0 and the player loses a life. How do I make it so that the player receives damage from enemies when colliding with them, say 10 health points or so.

I believe I'd have to do something with either the player's update or the enemies update...I'm not sure.

It depends on your game how you want to handle this. You could throw the player back a few pixels so he no longer collides with the enemy, or use a timer to make him invincible for a few seconds.

Example with the timer:

init: function( x, y, settings ) {
	this.parent( x, y, settings );
	
	// ...
	
	this.invincibleTimer = new ig.Timer();
},

receiveDamage: function( amount, from ) {
	if( this.invincibleTimer.delta() > 0 ) {
		// if we can take damage right now, call the parent 
		// function to reduce health
		this.parent( amount, from );
		
		// make invincible for two seconds
		this.invincibleTimer.set(2);
	}	
}

Perfect! It worked just fine. This method is way better, I was going to experiment by making the player lose a certain amount of hp, but your way is better. Thank you for the help, very much appreciated. :)