Enemy AI for Top Down Pico-8 games

This is an example of how to do enemies that somewhat follow and try to seek the player.

It works like this:

• each enemy shoots sensors towards the player.
• if a sensor hits a wall, it gets deleted.
• if a sensor exceeds a set amount of time, it gets deleted.
• if a sensor hits the player, a position gets marked as a target for the enemy that emitted that sensor.
• enemies will move to their target positions.
• enemies will roam randomly when the player hasn't been detected.
• enemies have a fov: sensors are emitted only if they are inside the range of this fov.
• if the player gets too close to enemies, they will detect the player, regardless of their fov.
• if the enemy can't find the player, it will get deactivated after a set amount of frames or after it reaches its target position.

This example also features:

• a bunch of helper functions;
• animation system;
• y sorting system;
• outlined sprites;
• outlined text printing;
• floating text messages system.

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This is released under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

You can also find this on the Pico-8 Forums: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=48889