The Structure of Action Game AI

published 7 days, 8 hours ago, submitted by ElementCy 7 days, 11 hours ago

aigamedev.com — In game development, the team working on the AI must be one of the most multi-disciplinary of them all. The artist have to build the objects according to a specification so that the AI can use them, the animators create the most important aspect of non-player characters, the AI is often the most complicated part of the design problem, and the level designers and scripters must understand how the AI works in order to create challenging and robust levels. The programming tasks related to the AI are spread along multiple different specialized programmers too, from animation to tools programmers to gameplay programmers — not to mention the AI programmers themselves. read more...

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Puppet Strings, Remote Control, or Hands Off?

published 14 days, 4 hours ago, submitted by ElementCy 14 days, 4 hours ago

aigamedev.com — In this week’s developer discussion on AiGameDev.com, Dave Mark sets the scene for a polarized discussion of methodologies. read more...

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Hierarchical Logic and Multi-threaded Game AI

published 21 days, 12 hours ago, submitted by ElementCy 21 days, 12 hours ago

aigamedev.com — These days, the topic of multi-threading comes up rather frequently. You’ll either hear sensationalist doomsday scenarios about how incredibly hard it is to implement, or how some language researcher has invented a revolutionary new technology that solves all the world’s concurrency problems. Meanwhile, in the background, game developers have been innovating quietly, squeezing more and more performance out of their multi-core hardware… read more...

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Play First... Code AI Later

published 22 days, 12 hours ago, submitted by ElementCy 22 days, 12 hours ago

aigamedev.com — This week, Dave Mark tries to take a break from thinking about AI, but ends up doing it anyway! Do you play your games this extensively before implementing the AI? read more...

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Aiding pathfinding with cellular automata

published 1 month, 7 days ago, submitted by ElementCy 1 month, 7 days ago

realtimecollisiondetection.net — Cellular automata have uses beyond Game of Life. Learn how to use a CA to solve a maze and even to reduce the search space for a pathfinding problem! read more...

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Working Backwards: Designing the AI First

published 2 months, 3 days ago, submitted by ElementCy 2 months, 3 days ago

aigamedev.com — What would happen if you set out on a game development quest by designing the AI first? You can make the case that Creatures was likely done that way. There are some obvious, little-used AI techniques in play there. read more...

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The Anatomy of an AI Architecture for Game Characters

published 2 months, 13 days ago, submitted by ElementCy 2 months, 13 days ago

aigamedev.com — Would you be surprised to hear that regardless of the technology you choose to implement your decision making system there are some very common patterns that reoccur in AI architectures? Whether you implement a planning engine based on STRIPS or HTN, or a more reactive system using fuzzy logic or behavior trees… All of these technologies, when plugged together in a game AI architecture, will exhibit similar patterns that don’t even depend on the character-type or even the style of game. read more...

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SIGGRAPH Papers for Game AI from Parallelism to Character Animation

published 2 months, 23 days ago, submitted by ElementCy 2 months, 24 days ago

aigamedev.com — The SIGGRAPH conference is always like a treasure chest for anyone working in fields relating to graphics or simulation. This year’s event is still a few months away, but the main papers are already online. Here’s a selection of the best papers that are the most relevant for creating artificial intelligent characters in games. read more...

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