GID Entry from last week

Last weekend I spent a few hours messing with one of my old projects while the Game in a Day was on.

This project is somewhat strange, in that I'm doing it for an event called "Game City" in Nottingham, England during October. The event is going to celebrate indie development as part of a week long cultural games showcase.

Anyway, for the event, I wanted to showcase some prototype concepts as part of a way of showing people how games come about. After playing with TGB and the new behaviors for a while, I realised that it was the perfect platform to do some experiments and to show how they work.

So a few weeks back, I started looking at behaviors (as implemented in TGB beta 3) as a method of generating a bunch of games. But slightly more strangely, I was looking at actually then using those to video me creating a bunch of games "live" in that, well, not physically live, but video'd as they are created.

Now I've hit some snags in the behavior code as-is, so I'm not able to complete the video's just yet. But I thought I'd release these projects as I go (hey, Its kind of fun to experiment with behaviors). Soon enough I hope that some of the bigger issues causing problems for the behavior code will be addressed and I can show the other projects (I've got a few more "done" but they crash).



Here is the first game "behavior wars"


You can download it From here

Hope you find it entertaining. Keys are: wasd to move ship. Left mouse to shoot and mouse aims.

So the interesting bits to note are the "behaviors". If you have TGB, you can open the project (I've included the scripts) and inspect the behaviors. I've added a few of my own to the project, things like:

Count on Death
Counter
Flee
Seek
Arrive (not done yet)
Wander

So have a play with em. More will be added to the next build (I'm after a few more useful enemies because right now it doesnt feel like a game does it?).