Making good enemy AI in MMF2

Demon Lizardman

Level 3

« on: August 06, 2010, 12:25:36 PM »

I've recently started a game which involves platforming and such. One of those enemies is oddly enough, a goomba. But I want the goomba to also hop at the edge of ledges and have gravity and turn around at walls. I really suck at enemy AI in MMF2, I understand lots of you guys here have made pretty amazing games, so I need some help.


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Re: Making good enemy AI in MMF2

« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2010, 06:03:35 PM »

You want it to jump up small ledges, and turn around when it hits a wall. Both of these things are fairly easy by having it check where walls are near it.

In MMF, you can accomplish this by setting the object's position to where you want to check the collision, then check to see if "goomba is overlapping a wall" (or whatever). If it is colliding, you can set a flag to on to keep track of it. Then move the object back to its original position. Then using the flag you can run some code on the goomba to make it turn around or jump.