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Box mental zombies

Here you can see simple "zombie" behavior. Basically the green agents try and attack any white agent within range of thier sensors.
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Another update to my game. Added a modifier to the fixed rate updates. What this means is that I can do effects like slow-mo and stopping whilst the camera retains its normal rate etc. I'm using this to debug a few situations I've found with steering and AI behaviour in the game. Thought it might be fun to show the effect of that. Seems there is an upper limit to the timestep where the whole thing just goes completely mental.
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First attempt with Box2d integration in Box Mental

AI in box mental requires agents to maintain seperation. I figured it might be fun to try using box2d to do that. Here you see a video of my first integration. Red circles are supposed to be around the agents rather than orbiting them. Dumb I know, but there you go. See other video today for the thing actually working!
Work in progress AI code - Box2D

Ok, so I added box2d to my engine, so that I could use it for seperation forces for my AI guys. The red circles around the characters are the box2d shapes. Obviously I made them a bit too big for demo purposes. Notice how the characters seperate out when I add more of them? Thats nice. White guys are called Whitey, green guys are zombies. zombies do melee attacks when they are close enough to a whitey. Whitey right now doesnt take any damage. In fact I'm not sure he should. Zombies arent ...
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Box Mental work-in-progress video - Zombie AI

Work in progress on my game "Box Mental". AI here showing some zombie follow behaviour. Taken 09-09-09.
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Test upload for my game "Box Mental"

Just a quick test upload of my games video encoding option. I wanted to see if youtube would accept xvid encoded video's for upload. This scene is just a bunch of idle behaviors running on some test characters in a test environment. Not any represenation of the game.
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