> How would you unit test an enemy that spawns, moves towards the player, and attacks?

You can easily write a 'simulation' version of your event loop and dependency inject that. Once time can be simulated, any deterministic interaction can be unit tested.

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mac-mc 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Others would quibble that those are integration tests, "UI" tests, or other higher-level tests, etc.

	▲	9rx 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Which is all the same as what unit test was originally defined as. You're right that "unit test" has taken on another, rather bizarre definition in the intervening years that doesn't reflect any kind of tests anyone actually writes in the real world, save where they are trying to write "unit tests" specifically to please the bizarre definition, but anyone concerned about definitional purity enough to quibble about it will use the original definition anyway...

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ryoshu 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

A lot of games aren't deterministic within a scope of reasonable test coverage.

	▲	greesil 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Set the same seed for the test?