{"author_name":"yangamedev","cat":"MiniLD","comments":[],"epoch":1374816840,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"42267","p_author":"yangamedev","p_authorkey":"20928","p_urlkey":"77890","p_title":"Can\u2019t sleep. Game will eat me.","p_cat":"MiniLD","p_event":"LD27","p_time":"1374816840","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"20928","us_name":"yangamedev","us_username":"yangamedev","event_start":"1377216000","event_key":"18","event_name":"LD27"},"text":"

The game demands I post progress.<\/p>\n

A* pathfinding, timesliced just like the LOS calculations, steering behaviours take it on home. It’s quite a thing seeing these mannequins finally hop to life. I’ve left collision on them so it’s a bit of a canadian standoff at the moment. Once flocking behaviours are enabled I’ll be taking off the inter-actor collision in preparation for moving the logic to the server.<\/p>\n

\"canadian_standoff\"<\/a>

After literally days of waiting around, Red Team jumps into action.<\/p><\/div>\n

Are you sick of that screenshot? Me too. Decided to make the map tileable so I can build small prefabs and sew them together:<\/p>\n

\"gits_n_shiggles\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Whether it’s an arena-shooter, RTS map or roguelike, I’m fairly confident I can make levels quicker this way. And the best part is that all instances of the same tile share the exact same pathfinding & terrain-LOS data!<\/p>\n

Transitions are the pain in this solution though — although AI will traverse one side of the world to the other by using the tiles and pre-generated paths as stepping stones, but LOS edge-cases are keeping me up.<\/p>\n

\"whatamess\"<\/a>

What a ridiculous mess this has become. I love it.<\/p><\/div>\n

 <\/p>","time":"July 26th, 2013 12:34 am","title":"Can\u2019t sleep. Game will eat me."}