Its my first time participating on game jam and all I did make before was a few arcade games. I like management- tycoon games so I am aiming to make one in this jam so every mechanic and feature is new to me and its challenging. Thankfully the AI is a big help to me in my dire moments. So I ask it for guidance, what to do etc. And with the help I've got from it I managed to make customers, their behavior to walk into the store but I couldnt made them wait in line yet. Next one is putting a store menu for customers, some economy features etc. But I think I am going to discard some things I've planned for the jam and rush to finish the game since there is only 3 days left. But I like the game and am planning on continuing after the jam.
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Good luck with your first jam.
I haven't used AI yet, and I'm still not sure about it. I understand it's a tool, but I wonder when my work stops being my work and starts being work generated by the AI, not to mention who gets credit for the work as any AI system would have been trained on other people's work without their authorisation in most cases.
For the queueing system, have you thought about a grid system or a series of waypoints?
E.g. check position 1, if position 1 empty, move to position 1, check position 2 etc.