When you choose a new position for the apple, do it in a loop that repeats until the new position isn't close to the player (i.e. brute force it), something like this: local function isCloseToPlayer(extraSpace) return (P.y + P.h > T.y - extraSpace) and (P.y < T.y + T.h + extraSpace) and (P.x + P.w ...

The apple doesn't disappear it just gets repositioned, and if the apple spawns on the player it increases by a lot then disappears.

Hello everyone! The game I'm working on my first small Love game to learn Lua and Love2d mechanics the game consists of a player who collects apples to increase the score. There is a timer and a high score feature to see how many you can collect in a limited amount of time. What I want to happen Wha...