🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <92098.095748IO00198@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> Just some weird dude <IO00198@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:
>I'm a little new to game programming.  I'm writing a space combat
>game for one player.  I've gotten books that explain search methods
>but that's not what I really need help with.  I don't need to
>know how to get it to search for the correct decision, but how
>to make it make that decision.  I don't think I can put all
>possible situations in memory and have it go from there.  There's
>too many possibilities.  I guess I need algorithms for evaluating
>the situation and for deciding what is the best move to make.
>(i.e. does it fire or not fire, and should it maneuver behind me or
>attack from the front.  That sort of thing.)

Post some more details about the game.  Is it in real-time or not?  (if 
not), do you divide the actions up into phases?  how does the interaction
take place?

You will probably want to give a few simple (or not-so-simple) heuristics
that the computer can use to make decisions.  These heuristics can be based 
on your own strategic experiences, and then you can play the program 
repeatedly to weed out the strategic errors that it is making.  You can have 
a set of special rules to cover special situations, and a limited tree-
search (perhaps) to uncover certain options as well.

 
----------------------------------------------------------
                          Orion Auld                      
----------------------------------------------------------
  Win 3.0 multitask: Choke on gum and trip simultaniously!  

	I say welcome to the Artificial Intelligence club!

	you can do things like let the alien follow you, or
	shot in your direction, but too make realy intelligent
	moves, I'll think would be very time consuming, and
	thats not what would be appropriate in a shot'em up
	space combat game. 

	But still aliens following you, and then time to time
	doing some random moves, also looks like intelligent
 	that'll say most of the time. 

--
        rhod@iesd.auc.dk
 
 
                                  
         /|\\\\\\\          \\\\\\\\\  \\\\  \\\\  \\\\\\\\ \\\\\\\
       //|\\\\\\\\\\          \\     \\  \\    \\   \\    \\  \\   \\
       ))) \\\\\\\\\\          \\    \\   \\    \\   \\    \\  \\    \\
       |            |           \\\\\\     \\\\\\\\   \\    \\  \\    \\
    <--|   (o) (o)  |--<<<       \\  \\     \\    \\   \\    \\  \\    \\
       |     /      |             \\   \\    \\    \\   \\    \\  \\   \\
       |   `----'   |             \\\\   \\\ \\\\  \\\\  \\\\\\\\ \\\\\\\
        \__________/ 
           /     \ 

Ethvert program har mindst en fejl og kan gxres en instruktion mindre,
ved induktion medfxrer dette at ethvert program kan skrives som en
instruktion med fejl i.

In article <N02.23@csci1.csci.unt.edu>, N02@csci1.csci.unt.edu (Orion) says:
>
>
>Post some more details about the game.  Is it in real-time or not?  (if
>not), do you divide the actions up into phases?  how does the interaction
>take place?
>
>You will probably want to give a few simple (or not-so-simple) heuristics
>that the computer can use to make decisions.  These heuristics can be based
>on your own strategic experiences, and then you can play the program
>repeatedly to weed out the strategic errors that it is making.  You can have
>a set of special rules to cover special situations, and a limited tree-
>search (perhaps) to uncover certain options as well.

The game is in real time, which is my problem.  I had thought of
using an alpha beta search method and have the computer perform a
static evaluation.  I don't think this will work in real time.
For instance, if the computer decides that the best move is to
get behind me then fire, all I have to do is keep it in front of me.
The computer will continually decide that the best move is to fire
when it gets behind me and so never fires.

If real time is too difficult to implement, then yes, I am planning
to break it up into phases. Movement, the firing phase and the
damage evaluation/ repair phase. The interface will be mouse driven.
Weapons can be fired and powered by clicking on their icons.  The
shields can be powered in the same way.  By rotating an icon of the
ship, the heading can be changed.  The view will be an over-head
shot.  Once the game is working, I plan to change the view to
a 3d first person vantage point.  It will be like looking out
the front viewport.  The over-head view could still be selected by
the sensors icon.
______________________________________________________________________
  COREY GRAY   IO00198@MAINE.MAINE.EDU  |
 "THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH -    | "A WET DOG SWIMS IN THE RAIN
  AND THE BOLD SHALL INHERIT THE STARS" |   BUT A DRY MARTINI LAUGHS"
   - ME, AND PROBABLY A MILLION OTHERS. |  - DEFINITELY ME
----------------------------------------------------------------------