{"id":392,"date":"2014-04-24T16:02:28","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T22:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/designinvr-14\/?p=392"},"modified":"2014-04-24T20:48:18","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T02:48:18","slug":"vex-425","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/designinvr-14\/2014\/04\/24\/vex-425\/","title":{"rendered":"Vex 4\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"color: #333333;font-style: normal;line-height: 24.375px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z281\/corypgr\/zombies.png\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/>This week:<br \/>\nCory \u2013 Looked into programming NPC behavior.<br \/>\nGiang \u2013 Brainstorming gamemode ideas to branch the game into.<br \/>\nJacob \u2013 Brainstorming gamemode ideas to branch the game into.<\/p>\n<p>Accomplishments:<br \/>\nWe changed what kind of game we&#8217;ll be making. We came up with several game ideas, and we expect to be able to implement many of them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Zombie Co-op survival mode\n<ul>\n<li>Defend each other<\/li>\n<li>Look for and collect weapons and ammo<\/li>\n<li>Work toward a specific location<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Reverse Turing Test with NPCs\n<ul>\n<li>Trying to kill other real humans<\/li>\n<li>Get NPCs to fight each other<\/li>\n<li>NPCs are reactive to attacks and other actions<\/li>\n<li>Body swaps<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Player vs player armies\n<ul>\n<li>Recruit NPCs to your army<\/li>\n<li>Take out the other army<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Problems:<br \/>\nGarry&#8217;s Mod documentation isn&#8217;t the greatest. Often have to test things to see what certain functions do.<\/p>\n<p>Still on schedule?<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve changed exactly what we&#8217;ll be doing, so the schedule is a little off. However, we think we&#8217;ll have things ready in time still.<\/p>\n<p>Plans for next week:<br \/>\nCory &#8211; More NPC interactions. Specifically, programmed walking around and using items. Also, looking into the multiplayer issues.<br \/>\nGhiang &#8211; Look into goal conditions trying to locate a platform to get to<br \/>\nJacob &#8211; Look into placing items or having NPCs drop items<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week: Cory \u2013 Looked into programming NPC behavior. Giang \u2013 Brainstorming gamemode ideas to branch the game into. Jacob \u2013 Brainstorming gamemode ideas to branch the game into. Accomplishments: We changed what kind of game we&#8217;ll be making. We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/designinvr-14\/2014\/04\/24\/vex-425\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/designinvr-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/designinvr-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/designinvr-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/designinvr-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/designinvr-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/designinvr-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/designinvr-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/designinvr-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/designinvr-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/designinvr-14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}