I figured my other AI could be a pathfinding one. Surely I could just reuse some pathfinding code for haXe? No, of course not. The library I found showed several signs of poor manufacture(particularly, using the extremely slow Enum construct to identify whether nodes are start\/end\/clear\/blocked instead of, say, an integer value) and threw an exception in use.<\/p>\n
Now I’m left torn between writing my own pathfinding code(done it several times before) and integrating it into the Roguelike collision system, or to go with dummy run-at-player AI. The latter would be a much safer bet, but I think that having a pathfinder mob, besides being useful library code, would add more dynamism to the game – with the water and bombs, there’s plenty of opportunities for the player to snipe at them or send them into traps, rather than it always being a head-on combat situation.<\/p>\n
This is probably one I should sleep on, really. I’m at the end of my day.<\/p>","time":"April 24th, 2010 10:59 am","title":"Pincer \u2013 A failed experiment"}