my game was progressing nicely untill i got to making collision detection. i just can figure it out . Can someone please help me. my game is like the 2d zelda game. i''ve spent hours trying to figure out a way but nothing works.

OpenGL has nothing to do with collision detection. i presume if you are doing a 2D based game you will be using a tile/index based system. all you would need to do is test the tile next to the players current position in the direction the player is trying to go. if the tile index in the destination is the index of a blocking object (i.e a tree) then deny the player from moving. otherwise allow the player to move in that direction.

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Collision detection in 2d is fairly easy as long as you remember that a game is nothing but a thin layer of pretty (and sometimes not so pretty) pictures on top of a very thick layer of numbers.

Lets say that an object with a radius of 1.0f is falling twords the ground, which is at 0.0f on the y axis. Each frame you will decrement the y value of your falling object, also do a test so see if the object is a 1.0f on the y axis, if it is then it is touching the ground (remember, the object sticks out by 1.0f).
It is fairly easy to do unless your object are strangly shapped, square and circle collisions are easy so try to make your objects with that in mind. Also, try not to check for collisions unless you have to, it can take along time if you have alot of objects.

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can you please post a bit of code for an example?

u gotta be kidding.

try "www.google.com" and searching under "2d collision detection+examples+programming".

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i''m only a newbie.(obviously)
this is my first game i know i should have made something easier but this is sort of easy exept for collision detection.

Some semi-pseudocode semi-real for 2d bounding box collision:

  bool PointInsideBox(box_t box, point_t point){  if (point.x >= box.x && point.x <= box.x+box.width)    if (point.y >= box.y && point.y <= box.y+box.height)      return true;  return false;}bool CheckCollision(box_t box1, box_t box2){  int i;  for (i=0;i<4;i++) {    if (PointInsideBox(box1,box2.corner[i]))      return true;    if (PointInsideBox(box2,box1.corner[i]))      return true;  }  return false;}