So after a long hiatus I have decided to jump back into the Flash scene. I am going to kick off my return with a continuation of the Building a Game Stucture series. Today we look into FSM ( Finite State Machines ). FSMs are used as the basic AI for most games, especially RPG / Platformer / RTS type games.

What is an FSM / What is it used for?
An FSM can be used to determine the behavior of an entity based on specific conditions. Essentially they imbue an entity with the illusion of intelligence. Coding a state machine is a simple matter. There are in fact numerous ways to implement an FSM and there isn’t necessarily one “right” way to do it.

First We will look at a simple, although potentially problematic approach.
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