Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!ames!ncar!mephisto!mcnc!duke!grad10!cfg From: cfg@grad10.cs.duke.edu (Christopher F. Gandy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Omega - New Game from Origin Summary: Do includes directly to AI Keywords: Tanks Message-ID: <16462@duke.cs.duke.edu> Date: 13 Dec 89 17:55:37 GMT References: <129150@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1292@kuling.UUCP> Sender: news@duke.cs.duke.edu Reply-To: cfg@grad10.UUCP (Christopher F. Gandy) Organization: Duke University CS Dept.; Durham, NC Lines: 31 I too find this to be an interesting game. I agree that the early advancement challenges are not too tough, I made it through the first 5 or 6 levels with a bare-bones tank using prewritten routines. I did something different though, rather than calling the routines with an "include" line, when editing my tank's AI I loaded the routine directly to the AI editting screen. That was quite enlightening. While the code written to perform the pre-written modules works, they are far from the most efficient way to do the tasks at hand. Loading the module put all the code in a spot where I could modify it and get improved perforaance without having to design the program from scratch. This might be a way around any problems with includes. (though I would suspect the "copy of" to be a tipoff that you did not have an untouched game). While the graphics could be a bit better, and a first-person point of view might be interesting, I think the current setup is quite enjoyable. I find myself constantly thinking of little tweaks to defeat a particular tank, and then have to incorporate them into an overall design. A pleasant break from programming PROLOG list recursion. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- * I won't grow up, not a penny will I pinch | Department of Computer Science, * I will never grow a moustache, or a | Duke University, * fraction of an inch. | Durham, NC 27706 * Cause growing up is awfuller than all the | * awful things that ever were. | ARPA: cfg@cs.duke.edu * I won't grow up, never grow up..... | CSNET: cfg@duke * Not ME! (P. Pan & cfg) | UUCP: decvax!duke!cfg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-