Jay McGavren's Journal

2007-08-28

Catching up with my bookshelf...

Hit a couple walls with Zyps… My fix to make creatures stop turning wildly after resuming an action caused them not to act at all unless they were acting on every object in the environment. Messy.

So I perused the literature again and found that a couple decent, accessible books on game AI have been written since I last looked. Added one to my Safari bookshelf, and from skimming it, I appear to be re-inventing the wheel in a couple respects. No big deal… as far as I know Zyps is still the most easily extendable AI architecture out there, and one of the few suitable for hobbyists.

And the book solved my problem, I think. Behaviors and Actions will need a little re-architecture, but it appears sweeping changes won’t be needed.

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2007-08-28

Thus far, LJXP (the LiveJournal Cross-Poster) seems to just work. That’s a lot more than I can say for WordPress’s own post by e-mail feature…

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2007-08-28

Let’s see - this makes four nights in a row now that the baby has slept only 6 hours, meaning we’ve had even less.

He is so getting moved to his own bedroom this weekend. Yay - I get my desktop back!

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2007-08-27

The baby’s been fussing since 4 AM… again. It’s bad for me, but it’s gotta be worse for Diana, since she sleeps right next to him.

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2007-08-22

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A few things were broken with my old Approach action, but now it’s much improved. There’s still one kludge left in it that keeps it from going into the main Zyps library, though…

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