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2d Enemy Ai
Give your enemies a brain. Build a 2D state machine (idle, roam, chase, attack) on CharacterBody2D, with NavigationAgent2D pathfinding and proximity detection.
10
Lessons
1095
XP Reward
Intermediate
Difficulty
No videos to zone out to. You write the code yourself in the browser, and Code Checks show what your code passed as you go.
Campaign preview: Enemy AI in action in the complete 2D top-down RPG
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It is the finished project for the whole quest. Use it to compare your work or to recover a broken step.
A node-per-state machine, shown on a slime that idles, roams, chases, leaps, staggers and dies. Free to download, MIT licensed, no account needed.
View the free open-source version on GitHub What is in the State Machine projectGive your enemies a brain. Build a 2D state machine (idle, roam, chase, attack) on CharacterBody2D, with NavigationAgent2D pathfinding and proximity detection.
Finish it, then keep the momentum. Here's the logical next step.
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