How do I just get the ghost to move and nothing else?

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- dazedangels
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I've been playing around with the pacman demo to try to figure out how to get a ghost to move around the board without using the Pathfind behavior.

The player movement makes sense. But if you strip everything off of the ghost what is the bare minimum you need to just make just 1 non-animated ghost move on it's own? No killing, eating, being eaten, just to make one ghost move - nothing else?

Is there a downloadable demo for just how those ghosts are supposed to move without doing anything else?
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- dop2000
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As far as I understand, "Eat them all" demo replicates the same AI for ghosts as in the original Pacman. You can move the ghost with any behavior your like - 8direction, Bullet, MoveTo, TileMovement. The difficult part is how to chase the player and run away from the player.

The absolute minimum I guess is this - choose Bullet direction at random with choose(0,90,180,270), move in that direction, on collision with wall choose again. Ghost will just be wondering around.
- dazedangels
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Hey Ghost wondering is fine as long as they keep wondering.

So far I got it down to this: emailedee.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/removeWhat.png

Let see what else I can cut. Fingers crossed.
- Kyla Watson
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Keep wandering. You will see