How do I make directional blocks?

I'm looking to make it so when you hit certain blocks it changes your direction. How could I go about doing this?

You mean your character on the screen? A car? You will need to be a bit more specific i'm afraid.

If it is a character, do you use 8-directions control or platformer? Or is it just an object that is animated to automatically move by setting coordinate increments?

It's a runner my character goes right, but if I land on a certain block I want it to change my direction to make him go left. So if he lands on the first 2 blocks after he lands a jump it causes him to move left and fall off the ledge and die.

The idea is that you create a Global Variable and basicly let the movement switch when the variable changes. And when you touch the block it switches the variable..

Derpest

Figured i would make an example..

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1750576/ExampleRunnerWithDirectionChanger.capx

Good luck.

That's perfect! Only a small thing though, the block when you collide into them lets your character go half way into them.

I noticed that too. I thought it had to do with the image point or origin of the image but when i tried that it didn't help. Perhaps try 'overlap at an offset' instead of 'on collision'? I don't know really.