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Eamonn wrote:If I was making a game, how would I add AI to something like an enemy? I've never done it
In case AI means something else in LÖVE, I'm talking about artificial intelligence.

if player.x < self.x then
  self.x = self.x - 1
end

if player.x > self.x then
  self.x = self.x +1
end

if player.y < self.y then
  self.y = self.y - 1
end

if player.y > self.y then
  self.y = self.y +1
end

if distance(self, player) == 1 then

 self:attack(player)

end

Also, would it be illegal to make a snake clone and put it on the LÖVE forums?

Hexenhammer wrote:

Eamonn wrote:If I was making a game, how would I add AI to something like an enemy? I've never done it
In case AI means something else in LÖVE, I'm talking about artificial intelligence.

That is a pretty general question. It depends on your engine design. The most basic AI would be some entity having an AI which causes it to chase the player. Assuming the entities in your game world have simple (x,y) positions it would look something like this

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if player.x < self.x then
  self.x = self.x - 1
end

if player.x > self.x then
  self.x = self.x +1
end

if player.y < self.y then
  self.y = self.y - 1
end

if player.y > self.y then
  self.y = self.y +1
end

self (your actor with AI) would now chase the player.. that's some - very basic - AI. There is nothing special about AI code really. Basic principle of a simple AI is that your AI code looks at the world state (here the current position of the player) and reacts to it e.g. by moving the actor the AI controls or making the actor do something else e.g. attack:

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if distance(self, player) == 1 then

 self:attack(player)

end

.. or something like that.

Also, would it be illegal to make a snake clone and put it on the LÖVE forums?

No, game mechanics aren't subject to copyright and there is no patent covering "snake" and there will never be one either (it would be easy to find "prior art").

Eamonn wrote:In case AI means something else in LÖVE

Eamonn wrote: Also, would it be illegal to make a snake clone and put it on the LÖVE forums? I was thinking of making one but I'm not too sure... obviously not using a copyrighted soundtrack and just the concept itself!

Sheepolution wrote:Nintendo is not going to sue you when you're remaking the original Zelda and put it on the forums, unless you're actually selling it.

Robin wrote:

Sheepolution wrote:Nintendo is not going to sue you when you're remaking the original Zelda and put it on the forums, unless you're actually selling it.

As long as you're not using Nintendo's image and sound assets, original reverse engineered code or things like that.

Sheepolution wrote:You can still get sued, even though you're not selling it?

Sheepolution wrote:Still wondering how Mari0 got away with it..