Moving a mouse controled object in a maze

[DEKE15]

Hi,

I'm trying to create a maze game (like pacman),but the player can be controled by the mouse (so the player drags their sprite around the maze up, down, left and right).
So far I have created 2 sections of the maze, a vertial path and a horizonal path, I can get the player to drag their sprite across the horizonal path and up and down the vertical. To do this I used the 'Drag Object' and limited the movement of the object 'X' when on the horizontal path and 'Y' on the vertical.
This all works fine but the problem I have is when the paths/maze corridor intersect (like a cross roads). The player's sprite just locks to one path (the horizontal path or vertical).
Is there an easy way to create a maze game (like pacman) where the player's sprite is controlled/dragged around by the mouse?
Any tutorials or help etc would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[LB]

Hmm, maybe you could use the Path Finding object or the Advanced Path Finding object, and make it want to move towars the mouse's position. You could always make it go to the last step, but that would allow them to jump walls. Your game sounds cool but it would be extreamly hard to make it the way you want to.

[HGHST]

You could try your own events. For example:

"Player" is overlapping "Horizontal Path" then set a variable to 1 or turn on an internal flag to represent this as a true statement. And then "Repeat while mouse-key is pressed" + "Variable A = 1" followed by "Set player "x-coordinate to x-coordinate of mouse". You may also need to test if the mouse pointer is over your Horizontal Path. This will be same with Vertical Paths.

*And then create another path called "Intersection" for when the horizontal and vertical meet. Test for overlap and set both x and y to the mouse position.

Hope this helps.

[RickyRombo]

Hm if it wasn't dragging I'd say try using the ADO (Advanced Direction Object) and setting the number of directions to 4 (if that's even possible, I'm not sure how low it goes...)

Either way, limit the player to four directions somehow, and set the direction of the player to the Direction("Advanced Direction Object", X("player"), Y("player"), XMouse, YMouse) and if its minimum is 8 directions, divide by 8 and multiply by eight:

Direction("Advanced Direction Object", X("player"), Y("player"), XMouse, YMouse)/8*8

[DEKE15]

Thanks guys, I appreciate the comments.
I will give these ideas a go.
Thakyou, this problem has really got me stumped so any help is greatly appricated.

Thanks :-)