Defining Awesome

Bot paths are generated similar to the Q3 model based on Areas & Reachabilities (the red stuff on the video). Reachabilities are not calculated though but TESTED based on an actual player character. I chose to use a brute-force method of testing every possible position and move. And it works very fast.

No more waypoints! I’m making automatic bot path generation. I made it work with walking and jumping. Also it works with A*.

Something to contemplate over the weeked. I’ll explain later:

Making games is programming human emotions.

Added Link-Dead pages to

Steam Community : http://steamcommunity.com/groups/link-dead

&

moddb : http://www.moddb.com/games/link-dead

track it

Join them now!

Again I’m inspired by Quake 3. Read Jean Paul van Waveren’s thesis.

Excellent introduction for non-coders to bots AI – Jan Paul van Waveren’s bio I remember first time playing with bots in 1997 in Quake I thought God himself created such an awesome thing.

A* is working, check it out (click on image)

It works now on tiles but its too slow, got to find a different solution.

Today I’m implementing A* algorithm. A step towards intelligent bots.

“For a hundred years, how many people tried and how many people have lost their lives? Do you know how many people never came back? Not even their dead bodies came back; they got lost, lost forever. But, still, a few courageous people went on and on….. …But people went on coming from all over the world, risking, knowing that they may not come back ever, they may be lost. But it is worth it — because in the very risk something is born inside you: the center. It is born only in the risk. That’s the beauty of risk, the gift of risk.” Osho