My game works! But doesn’t.

 Nowhere done yet, but the game loop that 

  • Once Initialises game UI and sends initial prompt to remote ChatGPT 3.5 that explains its job controlling the NPCs
  • Enables controls for player to do an action
  • Processes player action
  • Creates prompt describing the situation, the last player move, the reaction of the game to last GPT move suggestion
  • Communicates with remote ChatGPT to get an action
  • Process NPC action
Works! 95% of the code is written by ChatGPT 4, and in working with it I got halfway den cent JS skills. Wouldn’t say I’m good but I understand many concepts now that I didn’t get before, particularly the “spontaneously return complex structures in a function/method”, the asynchronous stuff (basic) and the functional stuff (basic).

But GPT 3.5 IS JUST SO DAMN STUPID. I was hoping for a mode in which it replies with wrong answers, and the game updates it with “that was wrong” and the next time it gets it right. Far from it.

Will spend happy hours tuning my prompt. Probably will go for some examples with how to do it.

(And of course need to implement 80% of the actions)

But: yes, if you have overall software development skills, you can get ChatGPT 4 to more or less completely write a HTML+JavaScript app incl. installation and configuration of all required software, teaching lessons, etc. Mandatory knowledge is being able to precisely specify what the AI should do.

Kommentare

Kommentar veröffentlichen

Beliebte Posts aus diesem Blog

ChatGPT as a teacher

Bild
Today I came to the conclusion that without a good understanding of asynchronous programming in Javascript, I cannot hope to come up with a game that uses asynchronous events for all player interaction and other asynchronous events to talk to a remote ChatGPT for NPC actions. My code was a mess, and even more important, after 3 refactorings of my game.js class following ChatGPT's suggestions, my mind was a mess as well. And (see other posts) I don't think that handing ChatGPT the control over the overall concepts, design, architecture, is a good idea. So I asked it to explain asynchronous JS programming to me. And it did. Quite exceptionally. See, in normal life you can learn something like this in several ways: You can read a book. I actually have a good JS book. A very, very tedious affair. I have 30+ years of serious programming experience (not counting my "geek teenager programs the heck out of his Sharp MZ-80A with 48K RAM and 1K ROM" time here). A JS book is 95
Mehr anzeigen

How it started...

Intro - why this blog? This blog is mostly for people who know software development and would like to understand how ChatGPT can and will change the way we are developing software.  Warning: this is about real (Javascript, Java) code. Back then, in the old days,   I had developed an Android RPG I and a few hundred users found fun. In retrospective it was probably way too complicated for an app. The idea of the game was: turn any web page into a dungeon: words are turned into monsters and weapons - the longer the word the more powerful the monster or weapon. Vowels determine the elements of the monster and weapon, consonants define the behavior of the monster. I also used the web page to dynamically generate the dungeon - nothing you saw was random or pre-thought, all came from the web page.  That was the mighty home page of the game I did: web raid mobile . Reboot, simplified, in Javascript I still like the core idea of fighting complicated words like " butyrylcholinesterase"
Mehr anzeigen

Pathfinding and A*

If I want my NPCs to move towards the player on a nxm grid, and the grid can contain trees that the NPC cannot pass, I need an algorithm that finds the shortest path to the player. I gave this as a problem to ChatGPT: In class level I would like to have a new method shortestPath that finds out the shortest path that an NPC on coordinate startX, startY has to take to reach coordinate endX, endY, avoiding any squares where the top levelObject cannot be traversed. The result should be a list of coordinates starting with startX, startY and ending with endX, endY where each coordinate can be reached horizontally, vertically or diagonally from the previous one. To which it responded with: This sounds like a pathfinding problem, which can be solved using various algorithms such as A*, Dijkstra's Algorithm, or Breadth-First Search. Since you want to allow diagonal movement as well, A* would be a good choice here. However, please note that implementing such algorithms in a complex env
Mehr anzeigen