Practical Game AI Programming

MOBA genre

Point to point movement is one of the most commonly used methods to control the movement of a character. It is self-explanatory why it is widely used, because the character moves from one point to another and usually that's we want; we want the character to arrive at certain destination or follow another character. One game genre that also requires this type of movement is the Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) games that have become very popular recently. Usually, there are NPC characters that spawn at the start position and follow a predetermined path towards the enemy towers, similar to the Tower Defense enemies, but in this case the AI characters move in the same terrain as the players and can interfere with each other. ...