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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Dark A.I. Mini Competition

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Lukas W
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i started mine and finished the whole game engine up to the ai point where i found out that darkAI couldn't do what i wanted it to do.
so i won't submit my entry.

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BatVink
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Posted: 29th Aug 2006 09:26
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Quote: "i found out that darkAI couldn't do what i wanted it to do"

What did you want it to do?



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Cash Curtis II
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Posted: 29th Aug 2006 09:51 Edited at: 29th Aug 2006 09:54
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If you're dealing with character entities, DarkAI can do pretty much whatever you want. It's a very flexible command set, and very efficient. You can take control of as much of the system as you want to.

The only reason I didn't enter the competition was because I don't want to get distracted from my own project, even though it uses DarkAI.


Come see the WIP!
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Syncaidius
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Posted: 29th Aug 2006 11:35 Edited at: 29th Aug 2006 11:36
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Well heres my entry so far:



Its only the map editor at the moment, the rest of the game isnt working correctly yet, although I do have something working.

WORLD - A free World editor, capable of creating the most complex of worlds (including physics, skies, water, shaders, terrain editing and more). Best of all, it's FREE!
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Lukas W
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Posted: 29th Aug 2006 16:11
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Quote: "What did you want it to do?"

* be able to have "all against all" battles in an Deathmatch Game
* be able to look down a balcony without walls, but still not be able to walk (fall) down that end
* i got it working together with newton pretty well, but not how i expected. newton got v. confused.

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Posted: 29th Aug 2006 16:56 Edited at: 29th Aug 2006 16:57
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Quote: "be able to look down a balcony without walls, but still not be able to walk (fall) down that end"


You could make a half-height obstacle, and delete the visible object

Quote: "be able to have "all against all" battles in an Deathmatch Game"

That is tough, but maybe you could emulate it by switching the AI of the characters frequently so they are all "enemies" at one stage or another. It would also force them to move around more and switch targets. For example, when a character defeats someone, randomly pick wheher he becomes friendly, enemy or neutral.



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Maybe a stupid question but just to make sure, Is the deadline at the beginning of the day or at the end? GMT?

I have some bugs that need ironing out before I submit, want to know how much time I have left.
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Quote: "Is the deadline at the beginning of the day or at the end? GMT?"

The usual process is that the games get collated first thing the following day after the deadline. Officially you get until 11:59 pm GMT.



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Posted: 30th Aug 2006 19:23 Edited at: 30th Aug 2006 19:24
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OK, I'm done. My entry is here, with stacks of info too...

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=87895&b=5&p=0






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Slayer93
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Posted: 31st Aug 2006 00:52 Edited at: 31st Aug 2006 00:52
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Sounds like batvink and I are the only ones entering and maybe Chenak and BB king so I may defiantly get a prize because I know mine stinks. Not that that is really a good thing on not many people entering.

Edit: Looks awesome Batvink good job

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Chenak
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I'm gonna post it up in program announcements if I ever get it finished Turns out the bugs don't want to go away It will actually be the first game I've posted on here so im looking forward to finally releasing a project
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Lukas W
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Posted: 31st Aug 2006 14:30 Edited at: 31st Aug 2006 14:31
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Quote: "You could make a half-height obstacle, and delete the visible object"

interesting, but wouldn't that make them think that there is a wall there, and so they will try to duck to avoid the bullets?

my entry is here incase anybody want to see it:
http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=84814&b=8

edit,
note that i do not submitt this game because it's only 80% done (missing the ai)

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Chenak
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Posted: 1st Sep 2006 00:21
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Man I can't enter, theres so many bugs I can't fix, can't tell if they are mine, dark AI's or NGC's... grrr. I got random things falling through floors, AI running to random locations, AI that apparently are blind, animations jumping random frames and shaders randomly turning on and off. It will take at least a month to fix this mess
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Posted: 1st Sep 2006 02:07
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Too bad, Chenak. Maybe you can finish it anyway and post it up later as your first completed project.



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Slayer93
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Posted: 1st Sep 2006 02:09
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Yeh and come to think of it I never finished any big projects I should really try and finished a project of mine that doesnt take less than a day to make.

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Posted: 1st Sep 2006 02:41
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So the deadline has been and gone. Is anyone else going to admit to entering this competition? I remember previous compos when there were 80 or 90 entries.



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If there is only two entries then who gets the third prize.

Maybe everyone spent there money on dark physics instead of getting dark ai to win dark physics

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I thought the deadline had been extended until the end of september?

I know the voices aren't real, but they have good ideas!
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Slayer93
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Quote: "To celebrate the release of Dark A.I. we are holding a mini competition surrounding it. The competition starts on June 1st 2006 and you have until the 31st of August 2006 to submit your entry (the date was originally the 31st of July, but we have allowed this to increase by 4 weeks due to popular demand)"


To bad if you were playing to enter

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Yep your right I was thinking of the dp challenge, I did actualy start an entry for this but dp was released so I dropped it and carried on with my main project

I know the voices aren't real, but they have good ideas!
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There were 3 entries in the end - and 3 prizes, which is pretty cool (I thought there was going to be 1 entry until last week)

I've emailed those 3. Possibly the easiest bit of hardware you've ever won

The games will be in the October newsletter.

Cheers,

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Chenak
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d'oh! Wish I had more time to fix the bugs, next compo... I'll make sure to quit my job and limit communications with other people to 5mins a week
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Slayer93
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Posted: 5th Sep 2006 04:55
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Cool wonder who was the third entry...

Guess we have to wait till october

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Posted: 5th Sep 2006 10:41 Edited at: 5th Sep 2006 10:42
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Quote: "Cool wonder who was the third entry..."


They reckon forums have many times more lurkers than contributors, so it could be someone we have never heard of. Right now, 30% of the people viewing are people I've never seen post.

As it's an open source compo, let's hope they blow us away with a fantastic implementation of AI



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Quote: "As it's an open source compo, let's hope they blow us away with a fantastic implementation of AI"


Sorry to say this wont be the case, as the third person was me.

Good luck guys.
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Slayer93
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Posted: 7th Sep 2006 00:44
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Quote: "They reckon forums have many times more lurkers than contributors, so it could be someone we have never heard of. Right now, 30% of the people viewing are people I've never seen post."


Sounds a lot like me except for the few post Ive done in here...

Anyways congrats on getting your prizes I am going to try and enter the dark physics compo but this time I am going to put my full effort into the project

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Yay, second place, so who got first?

Will be overseas in the States when the Newsletter is released
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Slayer93
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Take a wild guess if I only got Dark physics (i never put a lot of effort in my entry anyway was busy working on other things).

If I enter the Dark Physics compo I think I am going to have to put more effort in my entry

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