I loved this!!! Super super cute and super fun to corral a bunch of little sweetos who don't know what's good for them (very true to real life with cats). Also I'm super curious about the enemy AI! The way they just wait in the darkness and then RUN was so creepy.
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Glad you enjoyed it! The enemy AI didn't quite get where I wanted it to, but it's a pretty simple state machine.
- When they enter the field (from spawn, or after stealing a cat), they run at full speed until they're roughly onscreen.
- If they're stealing a cat, they run at full speed to the nearest edge (that's the idea, at least)
- If they can "see" a cat (read: they're within X distance of one), they move full speed towards it, by tweening their velocity in the direction of the nearest cat.
- Otherwise they're considered to be "wandering." While wandering, they use a movespeed a fraction of their usual, and pick a random direction to tween towards every half a second or so. The cats also wander around like this.
- We noticed that they'd often end up crowding the light with that simple wandering algorithm though, so I added a bit to have them notice it they're too close to the center, and make them run away in a random direction if so. It only sort of worked haha
Hopefully I haven't just rambled, and that actually conveyed something useful.