The Rusty Barnacle: Inkbeard's NPC behaviour state machine
In this lesson you'll learn to
- Student can author npc_behavior Verse with an internal state machine (idle/patrol/chase) and attach it to an NPC spawner.
Student can author npc_behavior Verse with an internal state machine (idle/patrol/chase) and attach it to an NPC spawner.
🔁 Builds on: west-coves L19 state machine + north-jungle classes
🧩 Your capstone piece: The Kraken hazard NPC: patrols the channel, chases and eliminates straggler racers (support: npc-behavior, npc-spawner-device, verse-npc-custom-behavior, verse-npc-guard-patrol all PASS; spawn-npc FAILS 1 err)
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