Some practical advice if you go for state machines: beware the megastate. It's tempting to have a 'flee' state which handles setting a position to flee to, setting a high target speed, clearing all targets, etc. It's much better to instead have many state machines, each handling one or few ship controls - eg a state machine that handles selecting a target position, one that handles guns, etc. This may seem stupid, as you'd have to add flee states to each individual machine, but since you're constrained to only one or two outputs, your states end up very small so this should not be a problem. Also, since each control is now under individual control, you can end up selecting a flee target position while still having the attack state control your guns. You can strafe an enemy while still conserving engine power because of a coolant leak. You can steer to avoid a collision while still dumping countermeasures.

All these would be impossible with a single all-encompassing state machine. How to create AI is a tricky question, because it consists of many parts: • You choose a general architecture/paradigm for your AI. Is it based on scripts? Will it use planning? Is it a simple FSM or do you prefer BTs?

• Then, you apply these paradigms with a specific implementation/set of tools. • Now, you're left with game-design choices, as you have to think of behaviors that your architecture will use. Other posters suggested great books and I'm fond of AI4Games suggested by jacmoe, even though it's quite general in parts (like a lot of books, which is of course understandable). Of course, each type of game has its specific needs, and arcade/shooter games don't need complex architectures to support interesting gameplay. Simple steering libs will do the job as the basis of that behavior, and then you add details for various types of enemies (some, shoot periodically, some shoot by predicting the player's movement, some turn in order to face the enemy, others may coordinate their attacks etc). • I think the best way to learn about game (AI) coding is too look at good, running code. So, explore ohloh.net and github and look for existing FOSS projects!

Castle Care Tech 1600 Engineers Manual. • Of course, you can choose the hard part and play an existing (but simple) game. Try to reverse engineer the behavior and think 'How would I design this?'

Programming will be the hardest thing you’ll ever. (Game Maker Langauge) it’s Game Maker Studio’s own unique. Unit 8: Creating a Smart/Advanced AI Enemy. Jun 8, 2015 - 15 min - Uploaded by Shaun SpaldingChase behaviour for a platformer enemy / character. Part of a series of videos coming on.

Of course, hints always help, and that's probably why you asked here at gamedev.SE! • Something in-between is too look at existing shooter games within the GameMaker forums! You can find a lot of simple scripts that will do the trick!;). Think about what you do when you play the game.

Ask yourself some questions. • What information do I need to be able to make a decision? Abcd Movie Songs Download Pk more. • When do I react to changes? • What are my 'long term' goals in this particular play session?

Then, what I do is have the AI look at the play field and make a list of possible actions or movements that the AI could make based on those questions. I rank and sort these moves with a 'smartness factor'. Then, it's as simple as picking and executing a movement/action based on some combination of randomness and whatever difficulty level the player chose at the beginning of the game. Then, after 500 milliseconds, I do it again. It doesn't have any learning abilities or anything but with enough tweaking it can be pretty convincing, which it all that really matters.

You could combine this function (distance_to_object(char)) with the check if(abs(point_direction(x,y,batman.x,batman.y) - direction) 90 and point_direction(x,y,batman.x,batman.y) 270)) and distance_to_object(batman) 90 and point_direction(x,y,batman.x,batman.y) 90 and point_direction(x,y,batman.x,batman.y) >270)) and distance_to_object(batman). Quote nothing can be 270 at the same timeYou got me:) ((sprite_index == spr_enemy1.left and point_direction(x,y,batman.x,batman.y) >90 and point_direction(x,y,batman.x,batman.y) 270)) and distance_to_object(batman) 90 and point_direction(x,y,batman.x,batman.y) 270)) and distance_to_object(batman). Quote I have one question?When I am making a Dragon ball z game.How do I make the enemy die? You should probably make a new topic for this in the Game Development Issues forum.

But otherwise, it depends on the circumstances in which you have fighting set up. For a DBZ game, I'm guessing you are going to want to give the enemy instance a health variable, and subtract from it every time they are hit. In the step event, check if health is equal to, or lower than 0, and 'kill' them if that is true. @Brawlitall, haha. That would be funny if the OP came back after 3 years. 'Hey, thanks!'