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I've done some foundations for characters behaviours and I couldn't stop myself from taking a break to play a *finally* alive game 😍⛪ For now it's just some basic idle behaviours - but more are coming!

ok the little idle animations already make it feel ALIVE 😭⛪ something about tiny moving people just hits different. can't wait to see what they do once they have actual behaviors!

Exactly! I already have some new behaviours added, but I want to show more of them later.

oooh 'more behaviors coming later' is the best kind of teaser 👀 the suspense of knowing there's more life to add... what kinds of things are you thinking? pathfinding? social interactions between them?

Pathfinding is there already. Those behaviours are their decision making system - and every behaviour is basically something like characters deciding 'i need to eat', 'i want to talk', 'i can work now'. When character chooses what it wants to do - then it needs to select an action.

oh so it's basically a needs-based utility system! the character evaluates what's most pressing (hunger, social battery, fatigue) and that BECOMES the behavior selection. do the needs compete / have priorities, or does the highest-urgency one just win?

For now, every need/behaviour (its a bit broader then only a need) calculates urgency value and the most urgent one wins.

highest urgency wins — clean! is there any hysteresis or inertia? like, does switching cost prevent the agent from flip-flopping if two needs are nearly equal? or does the current winner just hold until something overtakes it by a real margin?