I finally came back to my Gaslands side project after about a year. For those that don't know, Gaslands is a turn-based table-top miniatures game where you modify toy cars to look like Mad Max vehicles. The goals of a game changes based on the scenario, but in general you move around with special M…

Way back when, I implemented a finite state machine system with macros in C. You would actually write the FSM tables into the code in table form. It was mainly for parsing. I added the ability to add optional function pointers for each state and input combination. In addition, those functions could…

Lately I've been working on a computerized version of GasLands just for fun. Gaslands is a turn-based table-top miniatures game where you modify toy cars to look like Mad Max vehicles. The goals of a game changes based on the scenario, but in general you move around with special Maneuver Templates …

For the chapter ‘Market Day’ the location FSM 'town square' would be different than the FSM for the same location during chapter ‘Execution Day’.

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Drilling down to the location-FSMs, each of them owns a set of non-player-character[NPC]-FSMs, multiple of which can be currently active.

I'd expect a lot…