I'm developing a small game in python. I am using a 2D rectangular grid. I know that for pathfinding I can use A* and the likes, I know how this works, but the problem I have is a bit different.
Let's say we have a computer controlled human and some computer controlled zombies. When the human spots a zombie, it should get away from this as far as he can. At the moment, to test everything I just turn around 180° and run away, until I spot another zombie and repeat.
Obviously this is not very smart (and can cause problems if there is a zombie on both sides).
I was wondering if there was a smarter way to do this? Something like using Dijkstra to find a "safe zone" where I can run to? Alternatives are always welcome, I can't seem to figure it out.
You could suppose that the zombies can see everything within a particular range (radius or perhaps be more clever) and then have the human look for a spot that he thinks the zombies can't see. Pick the closest spot the zombie can't see and use the A* algorithm to find a path if one exists, else try a different one. Look out when there's nowhere to run. Alternatively you could weight all of the spots in your visibility region with a value based on how far away you would be from the zombies if you chose that spot.