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A Leap Forward

4 years ago

At the core of the game is the rabbit AI. 🐰

They make plans and find the best way to interact with the tools that you have provided and the given resources in the environment...


Say for example, the goal you give your rabbits is to gather wood for you, they will firstly look for branches nearby. If there is an axe and a tree, they will prefer that path, as it is more efficient. Continuing this - if there is a saw, a large tree and a sawmill, they will pick that path instead. 🌲

First Person View

As a player, you control them less directly as a typicial RTS game, where you have to tell them exactly which resource to harvest. This frees you up more for other tasks - necessary, as you are playing from a First Person Perspective and don't have a god's eye view over the situation. 👀

More info on this AI system

There is an interesting talk about Goal Oriented Action Planning, as it is also used in games such as Shadow Of Mordor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm7K68663rA

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