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Is Goal-Oriented Action Planning (GOAP) a valid replacement for state machines outside the realm of AI?

I just learned about Goal-Oriented Action Planning (sources below) as used in AI programming. I'm making a state machine for a player-controlled character and was wondering if it can be replaced by a ...
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Is there a design flaw when an entity's state doesn't fully utilize enter(), execute() and exit()?

I'm following Mat Buckland's Programming Game AI by Example, and I find that I don't always have use for enter(), execute() and exit() on an entity's state. For example, in an RPG, a weapon may have ...
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Integrating an AI state machine with actions that take more than 1 tick

Background: I'm having a problem conceptualising something which seems to be pretty fundamental. We have, what I believe to be, a traditional 'game loop', which runs at 60 fps and iterates through ...
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Behaviour tree code example?

http://altdevblogaday.org/2011/02/24/introduction-to-behavior-trees/ Obviously the most interesting article I found on this website. What do you think about it ? It lacks some code example, don't ...
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States, actions logic am I doing it right?

Currently I have the follow states: Need To Run Run Need To Walk Walk Need To Fight Fight Am I misunderstanding it and mixig possible actions with states ? I mean, to me Need To Run would either ...
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State Machines: State Object versus sequential check: what are the pro/cons?

I dont know much about finite state machine in AI or other game behaviors in game, except this quick tutorial with a Miner: http://www.ai-junkie.com/architecture/state_driven/tut_state1.html which is ...