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🧟 Gameplay Programming course project (DAE, 2023). Focused on AI agents, decision-making, steering behaviors, and pathfinding using a custom C++ framework. Final project: Zombie Survival Game — an autonomous agent surviving through dynamic AI behavior.
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🧟 Gameplay Programming course project (DAE, 2023). Focused on AI agents, decision-making, steering behaviors, and pathfinding using a custom C++ framework. Final project: Zombie Survival Game — an autonomous agent surviving through dynamic AI behavior.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/knapeczadam/dae-gameplay-programming
• Owner: knapeczadam
• License: mit
• Created: 2025-10-16T14:50:26.000Z (9 months ago)
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• Last Pushed: 2026-03-14T17:31:07.000Z (4 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2026-03-15T03:53:19.215Z (4 months ago)
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# 🧟 Gameplay Programming  

Hello fellow DAE student or curious visitor 👋  

This repository contains my work for the **Gameplay Programming** course at *DAE*.  

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## 🗄️ About this repository

It includes both weekly AI lab exercises and a final project built using the **custom DAE C++ gameplay framework**.

The course introduced the foundations of **game AI** — from steering behaviors and pathfinding to decision-making structures such as **finite state machines** and **behavior trees**.  

The final project applies these systems in a small **Zombie Survival** simulation, where an autonomous agent tries to survive as long as possible by reacting intelligently to its environment.

This repository was uploaded primarily as an **archive of coursework**, documenting the learning process of implementing common gameplay AI patterns from scratch.  

> ⚠️ Keep in mind: these projects were made during the learning phase — expect minor bugs, experimental systems, and work-in-progress logic.  

> They represent the *process of learning*, not a finished product.  

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## 🔎 Course Information

**📚 Course:** Gameplay Programming  

**🏫 University:** Howest University of Applied Sciences - Digital Arts and Entertainment   

**📍 Location:** Kortrijk, Belgium  

**🗓️ Academic year:** 2023–24 | Third semester  

**🎓 Study load:** 6 ECTS  

**⏱️ Total study time:** 180 hours  

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## 👨‍🏫 Teaching Staff

**Co-ordinator:** Koen Samyn  

**Other teaching staff:** Fries Boury  

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## 🎯 Learning Goals

- Researches and analyzes **state-of-the-art gameplay principles** for implementing concrete gameplay elements.  

- Selects and motivates the **most efficient algorithms** and **gameplay concepts** for specific implementations.  

- Works in a **problem-solving** and **technically grounded** way, applying programming skills within given constraints.  

- Breaks down **complex technical problems** into smaller, solvable parts.  

- Implements assignments using appropriate **programming techniques** and **efficient code structure**.  

- Uses game engines, frameworks, middleware, and external services effectively within a game project.  

- Integrates and evaluates **existing tools or systems** based on technical and production constraints.  

- Analyzes and fixes problems methodically, improving solutions based on findings.  

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## 🧩 Course Content

- Steering behaviours  

- Combined steering  

- Spatial partitioning  

- World representation and graph theory  

- A* pathfinding  

- Navigation graphs  

- Finite State Machines (FSM)  

- Behaviour Trees  

- Influence mapping  

- Introduction to machine learning concepts

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## 📂 Repository Structure

The repository consists of two main branches:

- **`framework`** — contains the weekly lab exercises, implementing various AI concepts step by step.  

- **`zombie-survival-game`** — contains the final project, where all learned systems are integrated into a single agent-based simulation.

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## 🚀 Release

A release build of the final project is available under:

`gameplay-programming-zombie_survival_game-1.0.0-windows-x64.zip`

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## ⚖️ License

This repository is licensed under the **MIT License** — you’re free to explore, learn from, and reuse the code with proper attribution.