Subject: [stella] AI primer? From: Ruffin Bailey <rufbo1@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 23:02:02 -0400 |
First, a quick thank you for Color Tweaker. Very nice. (and a nod to The Dig once again) I can only hope Thomas's Tune2600 is as useful for sound as Color Tweaker seems to be for color! (regardless of Tune2600's being written for DOS *sigh* :^D) But today's question is, "Where do I go for a Atari 2600 AI primer?" I've been thinking about playing some Robocode (http://robocode.alphaworks.ibm.com/home/home.html) just for the fun of it and to start thinking AI, but that's, natch, a little high-level for the 2600. I was trying to think of games that had decent AI on the 2600 -- KABOOM! would not be on the list, nor would Space Invaders, nor River Raid, nor Barnstorming, nor Vanguard... In fact I could think of very little short of the ghosts in Pac-Man and the bat in Adventure for AI, and even those are just more patterns with a few rules, I'd imagine. Nothing struck me as even doing a real good job of pretending to have convincing AI -- Star Raiders and Bezerk are kinda close, perhaps? Nothing on the level I'd like, however. I'm trying to make a game inspired by Adept (Archon II), and now that I've very nearly got two animated characters playable with, um, human supplied intelligence, I was hoping to take a break from the tedium of dreaming up 5 to 8 more characters and start looking into AI for a one-player game, specifically with the mano-a-mano stuff. Hardly a make-or-break proposition, but I thought it might be fun. Ah yes, I also updated the little player graphic creation tool to open from the system clipboard, which makes things much more useful, I believe. Copy from your favorite text editor and voila. Still at http://homepage.mac.com/mactari/mactari/grpxTool/ for now. Thanks, Ruffin Bailey ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/
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