What The Flock

by mrphil

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I got stuck Sunday morning with my original game, so this is my second attempt. I took some advice and code from Chevy Ray's keynote for Ludum Dare 23 and made something WEIRD! It is suppose to have Flocking behavior, but I never figure out what was wrong with the code.
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Comments14

mdkess28 Aug 2012, 02:27

If you're looking to implement flocking behavior, check out the game Programming Game AI By Example by Mat Buckland. It's my favorite game development book - awesome results, and beautiful code too.

MrPhilauthor28 Aug 2012, 03:29

Thanks @mdkess, I actually used this resource: http://harry.me/2011/02/17/neat-algorithms---flocking/ There just some bug somewhere and ran out of time.

Amoaeba Junior28 Aug 2012, 13:45

Its quite seizurely! And with such a wacky thing u should explain how to play it XD

rwos28 Aug 2012, 14:23

It's quite - colorful, if you will. My eyes hurt now. :-P

I also couldn't figure out the game-play. Is there any or this this just a visual demo? I could click and move the mouse and stuff happened, but I didn't know what to do...

MrPhilauthor28 Aug 2012, 15:08

It's hard to figure out because it is so broken. The idea is each time you click a box it mutates and you are selecting on being hard to click. Its hard to tell because I didn't have to time fix all the bugs and polish.

lazybraingames29 Aug 2012, 05:47

I'm not sure what was happening exactly but I had some fun doing it! Kinda reminds me of an exhibit I saw at the San Francisco exploritorium back in the day. Neato!