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ndouglas / azymus

An experimental roguelike, written in Rust.
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Improve AI. #34

Open ndouglas opened 5 years ago

ndouglas commented 5 years ago

As I get more into this, the simplistic AI of the monsters is going to get substantially more frustrating. And the whole point of this game is interesting AI.

I think the best way to set the monsters up is with Goal-Oriented Action Planning. I think I'll need to write my own system to integrate it with the existing Command -> Rule -> Action -> Effect structure I have set up for things.

In order for the AIs to understand this, I need them to be able to model that C->R->A->E system. Fortunately, I think this maps okay onto the GOAP concept.

GOAP Postconditions or Effects are just simplifications of the Effect system I have set up. Summaries, even.

GOAP Preconditions -- which is really a better name than Rules for how I'm using them -- map to rules. Brb changing that.

Then GOAP Actions map to Actions. But also Commands, since I have those apart somewhat. Mostly Actions. I suppose the thing to do is consider them a map to Actions, but use the Commands to invoke them, as I do now. No biggy.

So, all in all, I think this might be fairly painless to create and implement.

ndouglas commented 5 years ago

I think the Actions should return Effects, not invoke them. That's one piece that will make this easier.

ndouglas commented 5 years ago

well, not necessarily. That would preclude multiple effects. Still need to think about this some more.

ndouglas commented 5 years ago

I think that might actually be a good restriction. 1->1 Action to Effect. After all, Effects can themselves have effects and so on, but that should not necessarily be the concern of a naïve AI.