What's happening with MonkeyBrains?

[davebaol]

Hi,
I’m the main developer behind gdx-ai.

@atomix

Regards libgdx-ai migration… Such idea is quite attractive at first but i think libgdx-ai library also quite wraped around 2d and the “actor” model - core concept of libgdx .

Actually the whole gdx-ai framework is dimension independent. Thanks to the use of interfaces and generics both steering behaviors and pathfinding API work with 2D and 3D because is the developer’s responsibility to provide the actual implementation of the model. Also, about “actor” model I don’t really get what you’re talking about. If you’re referring to something scene2d-related, well, I think you misunderstood the API.

@atomix

Regards the Behavior Tree (BT) of libgdx-ai . Yes, it’s well written I have to say. Even if I’m not a big fan of BT in general because I like more the reactive manner of AI (or half scripted, half reactive), or goal driven… BT AI modelling’s hard to make a realistic AI, because they are too “sharp” or too “case-study”, at least from my experience and what I’ve read.

Behavior trees have proven to be a real mean to implement complex agent’s behaviors. Think of games like Halo 2 whose AI heavily relies on behavior trees.