Summary

I’m pretty sure AI is not what you imagined; you are not creating Skynet here, but we have accomplished a simple but interesting AI to challenge our players, which we can iterate and tweak to tailor to our game’s expected behavior. We saw how to gather our surrounding information through sensors to make decisions on what action to execute using FSMs and using different Unity systems such as Pathfinding to make the AI execute those actions. We used those systems to diagram a State Machine capable of detecting the player, running to them, and attacking them, and if the player is not there, just going to the base to accomplish its task to destroy it.

In the next chapter, we are going to start Part 3 of this book, where we will learn about different Unity systems to improve the graphics and audio aspects of our game, starting by seeing how we can create materials to modify the aspect of our objects and create Shaders with Shader Graph.