Bringing NPCs to Life
About this tutorial
This tutorial is free and open source, and all code uses the MIT license - so you are...

...You can achieve a considerable increase in apparent AI intelligence (it's still quite dumb!) by giving NPCs goals - and having the goal last...

...In this chapter, we'll populate it with NPCs and Props. We'll introduce some new AI types to handle friendly or neutral NPCs...

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Attributes for NPCs
We probably don't want to have to write out every single attribute for every NPC...

...Ideally, NPC AI should be more intelligent than a rock.
Story
This is not a story heavy game (Roguelikes are frequently shorter in story...

...Here's the NPC definition:
{
"name" : "Bandit",
"renderable": {
"glyph" : "â»",

...we're starting to need entity spawns to trigger other entity spawns (for example, spawning an NPC with equipment - below - or spawning a chest...

...Populating the caverns
The caverns are pretty playable as-is, but they don't really match what we've described in terms of NPCs...

...Make a new file, ai/encumbrance_system.rs
(and include mod
and pub use
statements in ai/mod.rs
):

...We're doing something very similar in ai/encumbrance_system.rs
- so that's the natural place to slot it in. We'll add a...