AI Ideas for Air-Hockey Simulator

AJFleming · 2002-06-25T16:11:12

Hi all, I''ve been playing around with an air-hockey simulation (dull and boring I know, but it''s a simple enough domain for a first attempt at a simulation-style-game.) I''ve got a basic front-end, the physics more or less as I want it, and the control code written and all of it plays happily together. I''m now looking at implementing some simple AI for the game. I''ve been giving it some thought and digging around on the net a bit, but I can''t seem to find a simple starting point. I found a really useful paper on machine learning for air-hockey simulations, but it seems a little heavy-duty for what I''m looking at. Basically, I''m looking for a simple heuristic which won''t result in the opponent being completely unbeatable! Anyone got any ideas or comments? cheers, Adam...