alt Hacker NewsGame design is filled with simple ideas that interact in fun ways. Every time I have tried to come up with complex AIs I ended up scrapping them in favor of "stupid" solutions that turned out to be more enjoyable and easier to tune.
Game design is filled with simple ideas that interact in fun ways. Every time I have tried to come up with complex AIs I ended up scrapping them in favor of "stupid" solutions that turned out to be more enjoyable and easier to tune.
I can vouch from my experience of turn-based games that exploiting a dumb AI often makes the game more fun (and gives the developer license to throw more/tougher enemies at the player), and noticing the faults really doesn't degrade the experience like you'd expect.
Unless enemies have entirely non-functional pathing. Then it's just funny.