Ghost AI for Pacman

pacman_566 · **Posted:** Mon May 14, 2007 9:36 pm

How is it possible to make a ghost follow Pacman? I've been trying and trying without success. If anyone can help, that'd be much appreciated. I just need some guidelines as to how to approach this so I'll know in the future what to do when I come across this problem.

Clayton · **Posted:** Mon May 14, 2007 9:46 pm

pacman_566's other post wrote:

I am attempting to make Pacman with Turing, but I'm stuck with ghosts. I've made three of them, but I can't get them to move at the same time along with my Pacman using the fork command. If anybody can give me some idea as to how I can be able to move all four at the same time, please tell me...

You've posted basically the same question twice. I've moved your other thread to a place for safe keeping. Try and keep similiar questions in the same place.

Now first, you should ask yourself: Do I really need processes? The answer to this should be no. If you would like to find out why, check out Why You Should Avoid Processes for more info.

How am I supposed to do this? you ask? Simply combine each ghost/character into one procedure/your main loop, then control each in the same loop. If you have any more questions, check out the Turing Walkthrough if it's on a specific command or post back here if it's something related to this.

By the way, welcome to CompSci.ca!

pacman_566 · **Posted:** Mon May 14, 2007 10:39 pm

Thank you very much. I really appreciate your help. I'll be sure to post questions of the same topic in the same area next time.

Cervantes · **Posted:** Mon May 14, 2007 11:15 pm

Also, this should be posted in Turing Help, not Turing Tutorials. I'm moving it there now.

Welcome to the site, and good luck with your project! Smile

rollerdude · **Posted:** Tue May 15, 2007 8:21 am

this is turing help, cervantes

Cervantes says: Yes, that's because I moved the topic, as I clearly stated.

Clayton · **Posted:** Tue May 15, 2007 8:23 am

Cervantes May 14 @ 11:15 pm wrote:

Also, this should be posted in Turing Help, not Turing Tutorials. I'm moving it there now.

Note the date and time this was posted?

pacman_566 · **Posted:** Tue May 15, 2007 3:53 pm

Sorry for posting this in the wrong forum. Anyways, Is anyone able to help me? I need to find a way to get the AI of the ghosts to follow him when he gets close to them.

Mazer · **Posted:** Tue May 15, 2007 4:50 pm

Try this tutorial for "tracking." Not exactly Pac Man, but it's the same principle and shouldn't be too hard to apply. Take a shot at that.

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