Pathfinding- Please help!
So a lot has been happening with me in the last couple of weeks. Most importantly I’ve joined forces with two awesome new artist friends. They are both extremely awesome and talented in very different ways – I will post more shortly 
The best news is that I have more games to announce! And on top of all that I have bought a Cintiq 12WX – I need a convertor for one of the cables before it will work with my MacBook – but god damn it looks sexy! Its a busy time at Jay Armstrong Games!
wacom-cintiq-12wx
But more on that later! Basically what I am struggling with – perhaps one of the last techy side hurdles of Zombinsanity is the pathfinding for your followers during a scavenger mission. I’m struggling to find something that is effecient and allows them to follow you through some complicated level lay outs.
What I may do is have them stop at certain points and ‘set up cover’ while you do a difficult jumpy bit and then have them zap in at the end to continue following on the other side. BUT if anyone can help me out with some simple pathfinding for a 2d platformer I would be INSANELY grateful! I’ve been struggling for this over the better part of the last few months! Please leave me a comment if you could help me out.
Oh and… Kit & The Octopod has now had over a million plays world wide but whatever… 
Kit and the Octopod over a million!
What is a Cintiq 12WX? And I am glad that you get 2 new artist, that ill be a good help for the future games.
I got a cool picture now. NICE
A Cintiq 12wx is a drawing pad – but with a screen built in to it! Its the coolest freaking thing ever. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEI97_Ka-n4
And glad you like the picture! It is generated by your email, so it will always be the same for you. Its like your own personal logo!
But if you want to add your own picture you can do it at gravatar.com – sign up with the email you use here. I think its a wordpress thing
That shoud be a good improvement for next games
Yeah you said it!
I’ve had a quick go at it over the weekent – it makes animating soooo much easier
Keep on! Doing Great!!!
Thanks for the kind words amigo
cool
Who are they
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Oh the artists? Haha well I am glad you are excited. I shall reveal more about them and the projects that I am working on with them very, very soon…!
Well i say we are all excited about them.
So… Sean is not going to work in Zombisanity?
Sean is unfortunately retired. But don’t worry, I have some of his artwork in there already- and I think people get confused about who drew what between us. I drew the characters and all those new weapons and the enemies and the tiles so although the backgrounds might turn out different, it will keep the overall look of Combat Hero Adventures. But it also explains a bit of the delay -without him its harder to make progress. Games are more fun when you can work on them with someone else
OH GOD PLEASE LET THOSE ARTIST DESIGN NEW ENEMIES FOR ZOMBINSANITY I DONT WANT TO FACE JUST 3 TYPE OF ENEMIES I WANT NEW THREATS WAITING AHEAD AS YOU PLAY PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!!
OK guys – I’ll have a think about more enemy types. I’ve also got guys with weapons you can add. But I’ll try and come up with more monsters
I had a great idea:
Zombies that can thow mocus or something like that,
It would be awesome.
Wait I have something better:
As the zombies can use weapons my last idea wouldn’t be good enough.
I think you could add towers. They would be similar to the chaingun trolley in SWA but this ones would be static.
The zombies will use it when you start the game but if you win them your soldiers would be able to use them.
As this towers would have better weapons I thought that the enemies in them would have more life and will be really difficult to kill
I don’t care who drew the things I just wanna play!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fair enough! haha
Zombies that can turn to water(blood), but they have a reloading time for turning into blood.
But they are invicible in blood state. and they can be zombies that can turn invsible and visble.
Ohhh sneaky idea – I like it
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@luis Hey if your prefer just 3 type of enemies then zombies better have a brain cause we all know they have zero reaction toward anything other then to hunt the living.
@jay What if your gang ran into the military will the military fire back at them or escort them out of the city? if so, then email me for your answer.I already think they have a level like this but I’m not certain. You have 2 months of development left it could be late to add a new level.
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Hey Rogers- be nice to Luis! He is an awesome guy – and we are all friends here
Yeah you can have enemies with guns. They won’t be very smart, but hey it’ll still be fun to nail them!
Jay you’re right it don’t have to me my way all the time lol btw what do you think of the new arcade room it need more adjustment
Yeah I think you are right – it needs much more adjustments. But the site doesn’t get much traffic and I just don’t have the time to edit it. Do you know anyone who might want to make it look good?
At The end there could be a portal or like a huge boss zombie who brings other zombies to life.
Wow thats good as well – I’m not sure I’ll be able to do bosses working along, but I’ll think about it
I like your carnivorous bats creature very classic to fans of Dracula
!As for the pathfinder your squad had seen all the monsters pursuing them, luckily for Max he teleported them toward his position but the undead is hungry and violence once they’re violent they move at a quicker pace so your only option is to run. Your team already running toward the end of the level your only left with one option and that is to do the same.
Genius. Thats what I’d been thinking would be the best way to handle it. They sort of take cover and keep out the way. I reckon its the most effecient way to get it working. Glad you approve!
hey i just got an idea.how about making zombie hordes and after you defeat a zombie horde you will have the opportunity to defeat a zombie/necromancer boss that is bigger, stronger,has more health, and has a special ability like when killed they divide to smaller and smaller replicas of the original.
oh i almost forgot there will also be a portal that will be locked and only after you defeat the zombies it will be unlocked and when you go inside the portal you and your teamates will be transported into a battlezone where you will fight the boss.after you defeat the boss you will get a magical scroll that allows you to shoot firiballs or ice bombs or anything you can think of.
Great idea – maybe a necromancer would be a good new baddy?
thanks man.
Maybe it should unlock guns and there should be journal u write about zombies and weapons when u meet and discover them.
great idea.
Thanks.
You Too!!!!
I was thinking about like an email system – but then I realised if i made this game any more complicated 1) i would never finish it and 2) my head would explode!
does anyone like queen because its one of my favorite rock bands(also jay’s rock band is awesome)
Queen = Awesomeness
What other bands do you like?
hey i just got an idea for enemies with special abilities:
~ zombie snake(has 10%chance to infect player/NPC)
~ half infected human(faster than normal zombies)
~ zombie with holes(harder to hit)
~ baby zombie(can cling to walls & is the fastest zombie)
Baby zombie? Creepy!!
there should be a sea level where u are on a boat at night and there are seagull zombies and shark zombies. And a octopus zombie boss at the end of the level
wow a sea level would be awesome – but would set me back a while if i wanted to include it in the editor. So maybe the sequel?
Hey!have some way to communicate with you? by e-mail? If I have any doubts about AS.
Thanks a lot
Hey!have some way to communicate with you? by e-mail? If I have any doubts about AS.if you’re not too busy, of course
Thanks a lot.
OH!And Congrats(yeahh Cintiq 12WX looks great!)
Yeah no prob. Just contact me through the site
I’m here every day or so and can help you out with whatever you need. I also know a lot of AS3.0 now! So i can help with that too.
Cintiq is so so so so good!
HEY JAY,
I really don’t know how to help you with killing ZOMBIES and stuff with ‘path finding’ but maybe if I told you some other games that have NPC’S that follow you and uses ‘code’s’ that allow the NPC to follow and do stuff like jump, shoot and react the same way you do, the game is called Plazma Burst 2 it’s the same style, I just hope it helps you can e-mail the guy at
http://www.plazmaburst2.com/?s=5&a=
BY THE WAY GREAT WORK , AND THERE SHOULD BE A USEFUL ITEM, WEAPON THAT STICK TO ONE ZOMBIE THEN TO ANOTHER AND THEN THERE IS A ELECTRICAL BEAM THAT CUTS THEM UP.
FROM YOUR BIGGEST FAN, ALSO FUTURE GAME CREATOR.
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