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 …
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Game AI of Top 5 Most Influential First Person Shooters
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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Game Review : Raft
Raft is a serene yet challenging cooperative survival-crafting game that casts you adrift at sea on a small raft menaced by an unrelenting great white Shark. It can be played single player but the real magic is joining a group of friends to work together on transforming your raft from rickety planks into a floating …
Levelling-up NPCs with AI
Developments in AI are rapidly changing many industries, including games. Today, global game developers like Ubisoft and EA, or game engine companies such as Unity, have their own AI research divisions. Advances in AI mean that aspects of the games we play are becoming more realistic, whilst on the development side AI-based tools are automating …
We Tried Learning AI From Games. How About Learning From Players?
Aren’t we done with games yet? Some would say that while games were useful for AI research for a while, our algorithms have mastered them now, and it is time to move to real problems in the real world. I would say that AI has barely gotten started with games, and we are more likely …
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5 Reasons Why You Need Automated Testing!
Making a videogame is never an easy task, and what doesn’t help are all the bugs we encounter along the way. Sometimes a mechanic that worked just fine yesterday is no longer behaving as it should. Or two features have been introduced to the game that don’t play nicely with each other. The more of …
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How to Detect Cheaters in Video Games Using Machine Learning
77% of gamers are likely to stop playing an online game if they believe opponents are cheating. How can AI help us find and exclude cheaters? Have you ever tried to play against a cheater? It wasn’t fun when we played Monopoly at the kitchen table as kids, and it isn’t fun in online games. …
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Indie Game With the Most Human-Acting Bots on the Market
In December 2020, Flamebait Games released Forge and Fight. A game where you gather parts and forge them into over-the-top weapons and engage in frenzied fighting, either in an online arena or the open-ended sandbox mode. I sat down with the CEO of Flamebait Games, Mattias Lindblad, and CEO of modl.ai, Christoffer Holmgård, and asked …
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Like an Artificial Intelligence in a Candy Store
We auto-generated hundreds of match-3 levels for Candy Crush Saga using different methods to see if we could pass them off as human-generated levels. Capturing patterns and creating symmetry were the main ingredients of the succeeding algorithm. If you’ve played a lot of Candy Crush Saga, you might be able to answer this: Which of …
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Top 3 Advantages of Testing Your Video Game Before Release
Lack of testing can result in bad PR, delays, and millions in refunds — and your players care!