AI Warehouse Simulation

How To Play:

Find items ordered by customers in the warehouse, then bring them out to the customers. Staff are available to help give items out

Customers (red) enter the store and order items at browsers. If they take too long, staff (blue) will help them find the item they are looking for. If an item is out of stock, the customer will leave. 

Once a customer places an order, you will have a location (aisle and column) displayed in the top left corner of the screen. Find this location, collect the item, and place it on one of the desks near the shop floor. Placing it on the desk which customers can access gives customers immediate access. Placing it on the shorter desk just behind it requires a staff member to pick it up and place it down on the collection desk.

There is also a manager (green) who moves from the office to the desk continuously. You can cycle through three pathfinding technique the manager can use to go from one location to the other (breadth-first search, depth-first search and A* (A star)). 

Each agent's path to their current destination can be seen by activating the Debug mode. Customers and staff use a Nav Mesh, resulting in their path being mostly straight lines. The manager uses a node-based system, so their path is represented using blocks on the ground. An agent's path is the same colour as their body.

Stock is not replenished over time as a delivery agent has not been created yet. Therefore the longer gameplay goes on, the less likely it is for a customer's item to be in stock. At some point there will be no stock, so customers' orders will no longer be successful.

Controls:

Movement

Forward/back:                                                                      W/S

Strafe left/right:                                                                   A/D

Mechanics

Interact:                                                                                    E

Toggle Debug Mode:                                                         Q

Cycle Manager pathfinding algorithm:                  F

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