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Project_DesertRose Enemy Artificial Intelligence

It’s me again - novice programmer, indie dev, artist. Freedom2Fight. 

I’ve written several versions of the enemy AI. The first few ones were too predictable. This time I made sure that the enemy reacted to some of the player’s action. This is in addition to the predetermined actions that the enemy will take such as attacking and evading. Hopefully this will provide a sufficient challenge for players.

On the subject of AI in games... It isn’t really intelligence. Intelligence could be defined as the ability to acquire knowledge. The ability to learn from experience. In games the “AI” only reads and executes instructions. Nothing is learned by the game. There are most of the time a checklist that the game reads and from that checks for the appropriate actions to take from a pile of instructions.   

But then again I’m just a novice programmer, indie dev, artist. That’s all for now. See yah, you lurking turds.   

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Hey mac, Freedom2Fight here. I’m not feeling 100%, kinda going down with something. But hey, what can you do?

Anyways, I’m starting to populate Shopper’s Row with NPCs. The NPC I’m showing is the “Beach Girl”. I know super creative name. Why is there a girl in a swimsuit? Shopper’s Row takes inspiration from the area around Venice Beach in the ol’ land of liberty and freedom. 

(I don’t live in the US. Thank god for Google Maps, eh? Also GTA V.)

Going further to the left of the map will take yous to the... you guessed it... the beach. Well, the overworld, then you go to the beach. What? You can’t do a little leg work now and then?

My next NPC will be a Salary Man. Suit, tie, overworked expression, slouched - the works.

Got any NPC ideas for me? Send it my way. I’ll thank yous for the engagement.

That’s enough for now. I’ll post again soon.  

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Hey. It’s me, Freedom2Fight. Here with another pixel art piece you can’t refuse. 

I’ve been working on the eastern side of Shopper’s Row. And I wanted to place an old school arcade center. Still in the works. It’s also an ideation of how items are obtained. Like LOZ, eh? 

Anyways. I named this after @orbitalforce. This kid actively engages with my content. I’m very thankful and couldn’t ask for more. Just like the mafia, I don’t forget my friends. Visit him why don’t-cha eh? Capisce?

PS. Been playing Mafia, the original. It’s dated but great.

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It's me. Freedom2Fight. Still making the sprites for the NPCs of Shopper's Row. Here is the Cafe Maid and the Salary Man.

The Cafe Maid will state some helpful game tips. While the Salary Man will say some stuff that overworked and underpaid people can relate to.

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“Behold, the City of Desert Rose.”  

F2F here, aspiring indie dev and novice pixel artist serving up another piece with the power of pixel art. This one is from my game which I always call Project_DesertRose and that’s because it is the game’s codename. Like Project Cafe for WiiU or Project Reality for Nintendo 64 but those are consoles. 

Once I’m done with Shopper’s Row. I’m going to polish what I’ve done and release a demo of sorts. It’s going to be free. It will be a mini version of the game’s final vision. The map will consist of a small section of the game - which is Shopper’s Row. And I’ll be releasing another one after that- sort of like an episodic type of deal. 

I’ll be posting a road map for my project’s development called F2F’s Game Dev Battle Plan: Find em, Fix em, Flank em, Finish em!

That’s where I’ll end this post. Whether your a lurker, a follower, someone passing by, a dev scoping out other dev - thank you for reading this and I hope you’ll be reading my next post.

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“She and Her Cat ... Robot Thing”

Freedom2Fight here. Aspiring Indie Game Dev and I need to post as proof for a rainy day. 

Anyways. In my video game, there are robot like cat things that populate the world. They are called O.R.B.s - Ordnance Removal Bots. From the name - they remove UXOs or Unexploded Bombs. This is because the setting of the game takes place 20 years after a major conflict against bio-synthetic lifeforms called reaverforms. Most of the UXOs are gone but the O.R.B.s remain - without anything to do they just become part of everyday life. Kept as pets or treated like stray cats.

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Guten Tag, it’s me Freedom2Fight. These are some more NPCs I have created for my game. They’re basically my OCs, huh. 

And that’s pretty much it. Smell ya later. 

And oh hey, visit my blog.

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Freedom2Fight here - aspiring indie dev and one man team. Trying to make a playable episode to increase awareness and engagement. So I have been busy making “emotion states” for story-telling. Currently working on Karina - the protagonist. The first is impatience, annoyed state. The second is laughter state that I can use for different contexts - general laugh, mocking, mostly mocking.    

One day I’ll get the episode up and running, see you then!