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[Nodragem]

I wish I started this topic earlier; it's been already a year that I worked on this game part-time (Thuesdays, Fridays, Saturdays); mixed with contracted work it was hard to develop and maintain a devlog. But well, here is the first post   yeah!

I am developing a multiplayer 2D air combat game to play with local or remote friends (inspired by a night where I played Combat on Atari ^^).



I like couch-game such as TowerFall Ascension and I would like my games to provide friends with a regular dose of fun

In terms of where I am currently in the development, I've made a vertical slice of the game:
- 1 game mode is available (more to come; I am hoping to discuss them here in fact)
- 4 levels (3 unlocked by default) available (I hope making 8 levels by game modes)
- No single player
- Local multiplayer is working (up to 2 players on one keyboard; up to 4 players with gamepads)
- Online multiplayer is still experimental (you might experience some bugs; note that you can have several players per machines)

Related Links

A full update of what I have changed since August is available here:
https://nodragem.github.io/Blog/post/gamedev/notes_happy-dogfight_020/

The playable version is available as a Free Early Access here:
https://gamejolt.com/games/prabbits-dogfights/433068

NOTE: I will start a playtest thread, so you can feedback there.

So, I guess that's all for now Let me know if you are interested in this project or have questions.
I will start posting dev updates soon (or later, depending on my contracted work   ).

See you around!
  

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The first post of my devblogs (on How I am building the AI on my game) can be found on my website here:
https://nodragem.github.io/Blog/post/gamedev/ia_blogpost1/

Here are some highlights:

"A brain, or an AI, is essentially an entity that transforms sensory information (i.e. inputs) into motor commands (i.e. outputs). To be intelligent, its sensory to motor transformation should be optimising relevant needs or goals (e.g. surviving, reproducing, etc)."


"In our game, we (as a brain designer) can confer the prab-bots multiple sensory inputs and multiple motor commands."


I know that I am far from the behaviour tree approach, but well, I was trying to have a fresh perspective on AI

What reads (article, book, even youtube video) do you recommend to learn about game AI?

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I am working on the rig of the prabbits to add more expressive poses for the main screen


I am going to add a mouth opening and a tong now.

For now, it is all in Blender, but I am wondering how to translate than into Unity...

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Here we are the prabbit starts to be a bit more expressive

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I integrated the new prabbits to my logo



Next step is to create the main title screen of Happy Dogfights!

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Which logo title do you prefer?
(NOTE, I am going to get rid of the noise in the clouds asap )

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I am releasing my first couchplay session of The Prabbits: Happy Dogfight.
I am so excited, it was fun to make, hope it is fun to watch!





Now back to development

[Nodragem]

Hello! :D

I am working on the AI of my planes. It looks like that the steering behaviour framework would fit part of my problem, however, my plane have the constraint that they can only rotate upwards or downwards with constant angular speed, furthermore they have a constant forward speed. In other words they can't do instantaneous flip-turns, they can't slow down or stop: they can only do one specific U-turn.

I am trying to find some articles where the steering behaviour takes these constraints into account: bird flight, flight simulation games, etc...

I guess I could compute the desired velocity as in the steering behaviour framework and if the desired velocity is point up I start a upward rotation...

Any idea? or reference you know of?


Thanks!