Technical Discussion July 9 2010

Pixel World collision detection

• how would you do collision detection from the Pixel World game design discussion
• Use quadtrees algorithm to change visual and collision map
• could store a discrete number of levels for more control (requires more art)

Path following

• Flash has built in curves and you can tell objects to follow them
• parametric curves require you to parameterize it so it is a constant speed

Go AI

• Alex Lorimer showed his Go AI written in XNA
• right now it looks at corners, influence and the last move played
• looking into a learning algorithm to mimic how players learn Go

Members present

• Mediator: Eric Raue
• John Kim
• Alex Lorimer
• Ramin Narazi
• Perry Tan
• Jordan Fox