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PICO-8: Top-Down Adventure Game Tutorial

A beginner-level tutorial for making a top-down adventure game in PICO-8. · By MBoffin (Dylan Bennett)

I want to make enemies

A topic by kramberry5 created May 17, 2020 Views: 554 Replies: 3
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I had the idea of making enemies that can move on specific tiles but I don't really know what to do, could I get some help?

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Doing true enemies that move around the map is a little more complicated because they basically have to move like the player, but instead of waiting for input from the user to move via btnp() commands, they just have their own decisions to make on when and where they move. On top of that, if you only want them to move on specific tiles, you'd need a separate can_move() function for enemies that uses those specific tiles, instead of the generic "wall" tiles that the player uses to determined if they can't move somewhere. I hoe that makes sense.

It's definitely possible, but it does take quite a bit more code. If I have some time, I will try to make a video showing it.

Thanks for responding, I understand what you are talking about, thanks! 

Thanks a lot @MBoffin, will it be a bonus step?