How would I go about...

[oxygene]

I'd like to learn how to create some really basic AI based programs. Obviously not real AI. But I'd like to be able to create, probably in a 2d environment, individual entities which could interact with other entities or items I place in the environment. Like for example those ant simulations you see where there's a few ants running around (even if they're just a pixel block) and you can place down some food pixels which they stumble across and take home, or something.

Is there some kind of package where you can get a 2D environment and add your own AI to its inhabitants? Even when thinking back to really old games there's basic AI in those that I'd like to be able to duplicate. I know its all triggers and logic and path work.

Am I making any sense here?

 

[Clown]

Am I making any sense here?

You're saying that you want to make the game 'Lemmings' but instead of the little green-haired blue things building bridges and digging and stuff, you want them to stumble across a bit of food and take it home. But not real AI. You want us to help you build a fake AI.

Mmm. American Idol?

 

[oxygene]

Hmmm, something like that lol. But for 2d I was thinking more along the lines of top down RTS style. I mean the coding for some of the older pc games cant have beent hat hard Just kidding. I loved that old sim ant game though, and something like a stripped down version of that would keep me amused for ages (the programming side I mean).