Re: [pygame] more of a game dev question...

["steve rowley" <srowley@ids.net>]

thanks!!!
gonna have to study this. you got alot of code here.

on window systems xreadline gives an error.
changed it to readline and it seems to work...

steve

----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Sidorsky <paulsid@home.com>
To: <pygame-users@seul.org>
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: [pygame] more of a game dev question...


> steve rowley wrote:
>
> > but i thought i'd ask anyway.
> > i'm writing a chutes and ladders type of game. were there are floors
> > connected by ladders, and the monters chase you around the different
levels.
> >
> > what do you think is the best way to write the monster chase algorithm?
>
> If you want to see a working example check out PyRunner
> (http://members.home.net/paulsid/pyrunner/).  There are two versions:  the
> "dumb" movement code that's used in the game, and there's also some
commented
> out "smart" movement code which made the game way too hardxtremely hard.
>
> There are certainly better ways to write such code, but PyRunner is a
similar
> type of game to what you're describing so it might be useful to look at as
a
> starting point.
>
> It's inteteresting that "smart-but-not-too-smart" AI code is usually much
> harder to write than "super-smart" code...
>
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