Re: [glob2-devel] Creature AI

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Hello,

Thank you for sharing the ideas. I have the same point
of view than NCT, but I just want to add one thing.
I am not as much an expect about GA than NCT, but I
played quite allot with these.


-Some history about gloulation:

You probably never tried
globulation 1. At this time we didn't knew anything
about GA, but it the idea where really to make one
colony to evolve, why the player would set up some
very general parameters. If we take GA as a very
large field, we could include glob1 into it. Now
the rigest question is: Where glob1 fun ?

Oh yes it was! But maybe only for the developpers!
It was like an experiment. We conceived a world,
programmed it, and looked at it to evolve. There
where no real game. As some game may end after hours,
some may simply not end. When the player would
change a parameter, you would only see the real
results about one hour later. :D Well, as developpers
we could see "symtoms" in "only" one or two min, but
that's still long.

What we can get out of this experience ?

After long (years ?) of tought, we decided not to make
another so much indirect game. But our goal was still
to create an inexisting gameplay. We finaly ended
in glob2 idea: The player decide "what", "where" and
"how", but not "who".

As NCT, I still belive there is a gameplay we can
find around GA. Maybe a MMOGA, hehe ? If I had a
second lifetime I would really like to try this with
the gobulation concept. So if you have time, yes, why
not making another branch ? Or another application
using our framework ? What I suggest if you do what
do motivates you the most.


- Creature AI/behaviour

You said some behaviour where stupid, right ? Can you
describe and example or a saved game when we can see
an explicit behaviour ? I'm still willing to make it
better. Thank you!


- About code comments

Start to read:
glob2/doc/sourceCodeUnderstanding.txt

And then, yes, I am lazy. And I don't like to make unused
documentation. But what I can do is answer your questions.
And if you think one part of the code is not clear enough,
just tell us. If you say that you will read some code,
I'll add the needed coments in this very code.



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