___I never programmed a Pac-Clone but in my design I had the ghosts "looking" for the Pacster. It was just a straight access across the matrix until a wall was met. If Pacster was seen the movement would be tracked until he made a corner and the ghost would make the same.
___Also I had ghosts looking "left" and "right" at intersections. If the Pacster was seen then they followed.
___I also considered having the ghosts see each other so they wouldn't follow the same path, but I never could figure out how to do it. (That and it never really hapened in the original)

[This message has been edited by SonicSilcion (edited August 29, 1999).]

Hi,

I am working on a pac-man clone, and the trouble is with the ghost's artificial intelligence. I am really stuck on that. So far, everything except that was a breeze.

I was wondering, does anyone know what algorithm I am looking for? I have read and implemented the A * algorithm, and it basically doesnt work/or I am doing the wrong way (I am pretty sure its the problem is a bug in *my* code).

Anyhow, help is so greatly appreciated and anticipated... anything--a tutorial perhaps, or even a old MS-DOS clone will do. I am looking basically for the AI part of it.

Thanks,
- prauppl