Stu's Rusty Bucket

Sunday, November 04, 2007

Wandering Jesters

Yes, the stock jesters now roam around the kings chamber. Very Ultima-ish, its a staple. OK Its a cliché but its acknowledging its parentage.

Any NPC icon can wander the map, so its nice to have some ‘action’ in the towns that are not just static NPC’s.

There are only four types monster AI right now.

* Wander
* Guard
* Merchant
* Attack Player

Attack Player and Merchant are basically the same thing, but attacking monsters wont respond to talking where merchants will. Plus it lets merchants run across the counter to track the player. If they were free they would be-line to the player, around obstacles trying to get to him.

The change from single player to party mode seems to have worked fine. I can now get a status of the party and each individual character and all script changes went very well.