My Game’s AI Broke COMPLETELY With A Thousand Characters | Mars Attracts Devlog 4

[@JeffThatcameraguy-og3hr]

Idk why, but I LOVE the way they wait in line for a ride! Very reminiscent of the scene in the movie where they get ready for war

[@outliersocial]

Cheers! I hadn't actually considered that, but now that you mention it, I think we can lean into this a little more

[@801jenks]

I liked your breakdown of the a.i system. It made it easy to understand and follow what you were talking about.

[@outliersocial]

Thanks! The main challenge with this was to keep it from being super boring

[@LemonMcgee]

really don't get to see tis level of information in other dev logs really enjoying it so far.

[@outliersocial]

Thanks! Is there any aspect of the game dev process you'd like us to cover in a future episode?

[@xethnyrrow]

Looking forward to more great updates!

[@outliersocial]

Working on it!

[@hcbrl]

Looking good!

[@outliersocial]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@JAK85.]

I was orignally just following the development because I love mars attacks, but this actually look really fun!

[@outliersocial]

Thanks!

[@edwardorbit]

I wonder how will the Martians look like in the final game, since you mentioned that soldier suits are just a placeholder. Would they be half-naked or have some other Martian fashion clothes, can't wait to see it😅

[@outliersocial]

We're still working out exactly what Martian fashion looks like, but we have a few fun ideas!

[@SildenYT]

Always interesting to hear what goes on "under the hood", so easy to say "I want thousands of guests in the park" without understanding the work the computer needs to to do simulate it!

[@outliersocial]

Glad you liked it! There have been plenty of ideas that sounded easy on paper but turned out to be a real pain to work out, so we should have plenty more material for videos like this

[@SkyGeneral100]

Interesting solution for the performance issue. I hope to see some introduction to the game lore and mechanics soon!

[@outliersocial]

Yup, that's coming! It's something we're working on right now in fact

[@timidteratoma9076]

The only suggestion I can make right now, is maybe the Martians shouldn't all be dressed in their green suits? While iconic, I think that while on their home planet, they wouldn't all be wearing what is essentially a soldier's uniform. Can't wait for this game to come out, looks great so far!

[@outliersocial]

You're absolutely right. We've just been using that default character model while we get the systems working, but we're currently working on adding lots more characters to the game to really build out the world.

[@Danimita92]

I'm curious how checking on thousands of guests in a single tick is more efficient than checking only on the guests in need of new tasks. How does that work?

[@outliersocial]

Without the tick checking, the system wouldn't know which guests are the ones in need of new tasks. So it loops through them all but only does something to the ones that need it. One script looping through a thousand guests rather than a thousand scripts means less overhead, plus multi threading only works with one big task rather than lots of tiny ones

[@meatwizard9785]

The game is looking great so far, but if I had to make a suggestion I think that a lot of the textures look really flat and boring, maybe add a sort of wavy texture to the Martian soil?

[@NoTimeIsGood]

It's not finished yet

[@meatwizard9785]

@@NoTimeIsGood Well I know that, I'm just giving my suggestion

[@outliersocial]

Thanks for the suggestion! We're working on adding in lots more variety in terms of environments & models, so we'll hopefully be able to share some of that progress very soon.