PathFinding In Flash - source included!

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Originally posted by FlashCat
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By the way Sermad what is the name of that book?

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its called isometric game programming with direct x 7. I got it off amazon (us) and it has just been published in the uk but I couldnt wait. ha. so it will be worldwide now I guess.

As for pacman I wouldnt use A* at all. I'm not sure what to use but I have a thought that splitting the map into nodes and just linking them together would be good. Using lookup tables with this is kind of the idea. Kind of linking preset paths.

I read an article on this somewhere but it defeats me where it is. I think a tutorial on programming pac man would be something that would be kinda fun.

btw just searching on the net for pac man ai spits back a lot of other peoples work.

I once found this article about ms pacman where explains the way each ghost "thinks" during the game. It is interesting to see how they applyed small differences in the way each one thinks to make the game more unpredictable and interesting. This is the link for those interested:

http://members.tripod.com/~gamesmuseum/

In a game with many monsters there could be use a couple of random variables to change the level of smartnes of each character, this way we can have different behaviors from the same programming (same movie clip).