If you’re looking to get started working in AI for games, it can all be a little intimidating. Artificial intelligence (and machine learning) is a very big field! There’s a lot to unpack here. One great way to find out more is to learn from the experts. The Game Developers Conference runs in San Francisco …
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When we think of artificial intelligence for video games, we typically think of opponents or adversaries: non-player characters designed to present a challenge or fill the world with activity and life. But quite often, it can be used to create more realistic simulations of human behavior. Complex systems are full of individual characters that might …
One of the biggest challenges faced when creating characters for video games is that you often have to replicate real-world ideas or concepts that a player may take for granted and then tweak them slightly so that it’s fun to play against. And there’s no better example than stealth games. Whether you’re playing Splinter Cell, …
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The medium of video games has continued to see groundbreaking innovations as every year passes. It’s crazy to look at the increase in graphical fidelity, mechanical complexity, and modes of interaction since the early days of the Atari 2600 and the Nintendo Entertainment System. Sure, one of them almost killed the industry while the other …
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Creating Your Own Story We’ve all experienced it in a big action-adventure game: the enemy gives a speech, we get into a big boss fight, we take them down and move along. Sure, there might be some stakes to it all, and the characters might have some history, but it’s not a story in that …
The AI revolution is in full swing. Modern artificial intelligence methods for learning, reasoning, planning, and optimizing are changing the rules of many industries, from advertising and social media to mining or manufacturing. But not video games. At least, not yet.This may sound strange to many. Don’t all video games have AI that controls the …
If you’ve spent anytime playing videogames, you’re bound to come across first-person shooters, with everything from DOOM to Overwatch, Battlefield, and PUBG having a big impact on the types of games we play and how we play them together. Given their popularity and continued development, they have subsequently proven influential in the development of artificial …
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