Wendy Anna Beumel — Mixed Reality Developer based in Orlando, FL
Buffet Blast is a 1 to 4 player arcade game created in 12 weeks by a team of 9 people. In addition to doing part of the gameplay programming, I designed and scripted the AI for the CPU players.
My goal was to help groups of 1 to 3 players have the full four player experience.
Buffet Blast was designed to be a multiplayer game, but since it was a school project, it required a single player mode as well. Early into development, we noticed that the game becomes significantly more fun with every new player added. So, I set out to simulate that four player feeling as best I could.
I scripted the AI in C#, utilizing ScriptableObjects and
A* Pathfinding.
If I were to work on AI for another project in the future, I would try a different pathfinding method. The A* Pathfinding didn't perform as expected, and I found it difficult to troubleshoot.
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