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>>does anyone know how to do AI in pascal. i have wrote a pacman program
>>that looks really cool minus the ghost :( . i dont think it is
>>possible. does anyone know?
>Funny, calling the ghost in a pacman game 'intelligent'. I assure you there's
>nothing intelligent about these creatures, and you don't need any knowledge of
>IA, to make very {*filter*} ghosts.
>In a pacman game the ghosts are attracted to pacman (your cursor), they only
>need to compute which of the possible steps they can make will bring them
closer
>to the pacman image and select that step. If the game becomes too difficult
you
>can add some noise to their stepping behaviour.
>BTW. Pascal is a general purpose language, this means that you can, in theory,
>program anything in it a computer can do, AI included. However, there are
better
>languages for rule-based AI.
>Peter de Jong
I know that there are much better languages (C++), which i am learning right
now. I wrote this pacman program in high school and people were amazed that
you could do all the graphical things that i did; but they always asked,"Where
are the ghosts?" Well, the best way i could figure in incorperate ghosts were
to move them during the delay time inbetween movements of pacman. is there a
better way? and in resopnse to wpdejong, how would you compute the path that
the ghosts would have to take to "attract" to pacman? any help would be
appreciated. thanx
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