A simple XNA game that AI players compete in, intended as a simple learning exercise for artificial intelligence. This was a term project I did for an artificial intelligence course.
It is a super simplified real time strategy game. Each team has a set of units, which gather resources and talk to each other. They use these resources to activate radio towers or build new units. When they confront enemies, they will attack. The behaviors are meant to be fairly customizable and it is easy to create new ones.
One feature I had planned was a sort of evolutionary mechanic. Teams would be given random parameters at the start of each game. The winning team would get to keep their parameters into the next game, and ideally, the team with the strongest traits would become dominant. I don't know what this would ultimately acoomplish, but it sounds cool to me :D
The units are driven by a list of behaviors. Behaviors at the beginning of the list (index 0,1,2, etc.) have low priority. The last behavior in the list has the highest priority, and if it is fired, will override all others. Each behavior defines the conditions under which it will fire. Each behavior also provides a method which is called when the behavior starts, and a method which is called every frame to update the behavior.
The units also pass messages to each other, and their "radio range" can be increased by being inside the radius of a radio tower. They alert each other of nearby resources or enemies. Radio towers start off inactive, but units can activate them by depositing resources into them.
Controls:
WASD for camera movement, and +/- for zooming. Use the arrow keys to tilt the camera...just because!