Okay, so I didn’t quite hallucinate everything in the AI code at the end of last month. But it did turn out to be a lot more difficult to make it work with more than one player. Still, it does work now, so I’m going to spend a little time this week fixing up all the minor bugs that the DS code merge introduced (like disappearing characters and no weapon animation). And then at the end of the week I might just be able to do some limit testing - I’m going to try to get six players running through the whole game.

I don’t know of anyone that actually played Target; 2006 with the maximum number of players, which was a little disappointing. I’m a big fan of multiplayer games, especially all-in-the-same-room multiplayer, and that’s the main reason that I put in six player support. Personally I’ve never managed to get more than two other players to try it with, but controllers are an issue for just about every PC user. Assuming I have no problems with the gear I ordered this weekend, I’ll be putting up links to decent (and cheap) PC compatible controllers.

If I get time this week, I’m also going to see if Target; 2008 compiles (and more importantly works) on Linux.