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[Video Game Coding] Video: Zelda DS - Enemy AI, Spawning, and More
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Antonio Maiorano
Jul 1, 2010, 1:24:52 AM7/1/10
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It's that time again! It has been a while since the last video was posted, and I've made lots of changes since then. Here are the new things to pay attention to while watching the video:
- Fade in from black at start
- Music and sound: the music you hear is a piece written by Justus Johnston, written for the original Zelda PC we were working on back in 1998! As for sound, you will sometimes hear the sword swishing sound - I say "sometimes" because currently the music takes up way too many channels at times, which overrides the sound channels.
- Enemy AI: the Goriya walks around, stops and throws boomerangs, while the Rope (snake) slithers around, and upon seeing the player, bolts for her until it collides.
- Enemy Spawning: as I change from screen to screen near the end, you'll notice that for each screen, the same enemies spawn at the same place. This replaces the random spawning of enemies I was doing before.
- Collision Bounds: near the end of the video, I enable the rendering of collision bounds on tiles and sprites. One thing you'll notice is how the bounds for tiles only surround the top-half of the actual tiles (for example, the bushes); this is so that the player can move over the bottom half, giving a pseudo-3D look to the game.
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Posted By Antonio Maiorano to Video Game Coding at 6/30/2010 10:24:00 PM
- Fade in from black at start
- Music and sound: the music you hear is a piece written by Justus Johnston, written for the original Zelda PC we were working on back in 1998! As for sound, you will sometimes hear the sword swishing sound - I say "sometimes" because currently the music takes up way too many channels at times, which overrides the sound channels.
- Enemy AI: the Goriya walks around, stops and throws boomerangs, while the Rope (snake) slithers around, and upon seeing the player, bolts for her until it collides.
- Enemy Spawning: as I change from screen to screen near the end, you'll notice that for each screen, the same enemies spawn at the same place. This replaces the random spawning of enemies I was doing before.
- Collision Bounds: near the end of the video, I enable the rendering of collision bounds on tiles and sprites. One thing you'll notice is how the bounds for tiles only surround the top-half of the actual tiles (for example, the bushes); this is so that the player can move over the bottom half, giving a pseudo-3D look to the game.
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Posted By Antonio Maiorano to Video Game Coding at 6/30/2010 10:24:00 PM
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