BOTS in Ace of Spades (video)

[hompy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j6Hfc0yDXE

The video is unrehearsed and the bots' paths are completely unscripted.

The reason I'm being assaulted by creepers is that weapon usage is a whole different chapter I haven't started on yet. Barring AI-initiated construction pathfinding should be the hardest task, so progress should pick up soon! Could've made spade-berserk deuces instead but this seemed much more fun. Fluttershy made the awesome skins :)

Computer controlled players are able to get around in any 'normal' map you throw at them. I picked Shaft because Jojoe's trees, cramped buildings and hilly geography make it some of the hardest to navigate.

Technical stuff

Pathfinding right now is extremely fast and reacts to changes in the environment in real time. Agents (bot players) upon being assigned a mission draw a broad plan that covers the whole map. Local obstacle avoidance is then performed along the way on every step of the path.

This means that save for extreme cases like a Bridge Wars bridge going down, they should always be able to avoid a hole or jump a player-created obstacle.

[Paratrooper]

I came.
Also, lol @ Creeper skins. Fits the video nicely.
Creeper defense game?

[Fett316]

Very nice!

[mcape6]

Man that will be helpful when i don't have internet. Also it could help for clan training maps. So what are these bots going to be able to do and how would one add them?

[Paratrooper]

Man that will be helpful when i don't have internet. Also it could help for clan training maps. So what are these bots going to be able to do and how would one add them?

This is just a mere preview of the potential of his bots.

[mcape6]

oh yeah, but they will go somewhere in the future.

[swordoflightning]

we need a download link :D

[Galaxy]

This would be freaking awesome for an alternate zombie server where all of the players are humans and all of the zombies are bots. Good job.

[swordoflightning]

zombies as bots

that would be EPIK :D

[Seabert]

I love it, AoS as survival game.

[Leonzable]

We better get a creeper survival game mode lol

[Defaulter]

@OP

I think im in love <3

[HoboHob]

Very nice. And I though bots weren't possible in AoS.

[TheGrandmaster]

At last you have released the preview to the world!
Bots are possible as shown, but with alot of effort - hi-five to hompy for that.
The potential for bots is huge. I'm sure eventually they'll wield ordinary weapons.

[LASTofS]

AI!