Enemy random movement

[boski]

This game is still in the relatively early stages of development. I want to get the enemy movements down, though, before I go any further. I've got a three level playing field, and I want the enemy to patrol it. Whenever he hits the edge of the screen, I want him to reappear at a random side of a random level. So six possible outcomes. Unfortunately, he only wants to appear at about three of the options, and he often gets stuck. I can't quite figure this one out, so if someone could take a quick look for me, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

balloon prot.bas

[ScumSoft]

I'm on it, however I am doing a rewrite of most your routines to make them more clear. Also writing up some instructional tutorial text in there to help out.

[ScumSoft]

Ok this should be a good example to get things going properly, your guy has 16 possible exit locations actually.

Also I would not bother with the background as multicolored playfields look far nicer I think

but to each his own.

 

Hope this helps!

 

[edit]There are a couple typos in there, nothing major.

Change 
 if !GFXtimer then goto skip_enemy_reverse 
to
 if !GFXtimer{1} then goto skip_enemy_reverse 

That line is meant to slow down the motion of the enemy to every 3 frames

balloon.bas

balloon.bin

Edited September 2, 2011 by ScumSoft

[boski]

Oh wow! Thank you so much! I really appreciate it.