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Welcome to the next edition of Gamedev The Hard Way. This time I attempt to program some basic enemy behaviours to test out my game’s entity handling code. This is quite a fundamental part of the game as I will need to create many entities, each with their own code. Things don’t go to plan however and I discover some quite major problems with the physics and tilemap code.
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Credits
Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
Chapters
00:00 Intro 00:46 Organising my source 01:40 Refactoring 03:33 Stealing the secrets of the ancients 05:25 Making a todo list 06:29 Spawning an enemy 12:01 Patreon 12:43 Defining a thinker 14:31 Patrolling enemy 18:08 Fixing my code 21:04 It’s all gone wrong 22:02 Fumbling about in the dark 24:20 Failing to make an enemy move 25:48 Outro
Tags
#agonlight #programming #retro #cprogramming #gamedev #gamedevelopment #retrocomputer
