{"author_name":"intmain","cat":"LD #21","comments":[{"author_name":"tcstyle","time":"August 23, 2011 12:48 pm","epoch":1314121680,"text":"That really is a hilarious pathfinding.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1314116580,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"63684","p_author":"intmain","p_authorkey":"3309","p_urlkey":"99469","p_title":"Flashpunk and A* and escape, Oh my!","p_cat":"LD #21","p_event":"LD21","p_time":"1314116580","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"3309","us_name":"intmain","us_username":"intmain","event_start":"1313712000","event_key":"7","event_name":"LD21"},"text":"

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Astar Postmortem <\/a><\/h2>\n

http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/ludum-dare-21\/?action=rate&uid=3309<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> Tools used<\/h3>\n

Flashdevelop – $0<\/p>\n

Flashpunk – $0<\/p>\n

PXtone – $0<\/p>\n

ASEprite – $0<\/p>\n

Postmortem<\/del>dinner – $16<\/span><\/p>\n

Total cost<\/strong> – Not going to laser-tag with my friends on Saturday D:<\/p>\n

Learn from my mistakes –<\/h3>\n

– and don’t leave butternut squash soup out for 48 hours, it goes bad. Also, making games is hard<\/em>:<\/p>\n

The first<\/strong> risk I took was implementing the A* pathfinding algorithm into flash, which beforehand I had only ever done in Gamemaker, and that was a looong time ago. So I opened that up for reference and away I went.<\/p>\n

The first implementation “worked” but had some sorta hilarious path results. I wish I had a screenshot but it looked somthing like this -><\/p>\n