[crooked-v]

> cool creatures that walk around and look like cheetahs or whatever

Once you have the actual behavior, everything else is just animation. Maybe you could evolve some keyframes fitting particular criteria?

[cfusting]

Creative idea - I'll think about this.

[crooked-v]

Check out the paper about the AI in the original FEAR. https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&d... Much of the "smart" behavior players loved was actually just a simple state machine with nice animations.