interview with Aaron Hall

Ed Kolis · #1 May 24th, 2005, 10:46 PM

Hey, cool... maybe this will get some more publicity for SE5!

narf poit chez BOOM · #2 May 24th, 2005, 11:31 PM

Weeee!

abkaiser · #3 May 25th, 2005, 03:58 PM

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Ed Kolis said:
Hey, cool... maybe this will get some more publicity for SE5!

That's one of my hopes exactly. Aaron and the game series deserves all the support we can give it.

Here's to being *very* excited about the new game!

Andy

Caduceus · #4 May 25th, 2005, 09:31 PM

What does this mean?

Quote:

Though our plan for SE5 is to make the AI scripts external!

Fyron · #5 May 25th, 2005, 09:41 PM

It means placing the functions used by the AI to determine actions in user editable text files instead of being hidden within the game code.

Ed Kolis · #6 May 25th, 2005, 09:44 PM

Pretty sure that means "put 'em where the modders can get at 'em"

In other words, instead of plugging numbers into predefined algorithms like you do in SE4, you could actually write your own AI code in some sort of scripting language (maybe Python or Javascript?)

pseudo code follows:
Code:



if enemy.shipCount > 100

{

  for p in planets

  {

    if p.buildRate > 5000

      p.build("doomStar")

    else

      p.build("spaceYard")

  }

}

else

{

  for p in planets

    p.build("mineralMiner")

}

Or, if you're in a particularly sadistic mood, you could try this AI:

http://www.comedycode.com/showcode.cfm/code/28.html

edit: drat, Fyron was faster... stupid examples

boran_blok · #7 May 26th, 2005, 05:18 AM

would be damnd great.