With procedural content generation (PCG) we can create algorithms that design new weapons, characters, dungeons, and even entire worlds. This seems quite commonplace today, with games such as No Man’s Sky and Elite: Dangerous putting players in the face of the infinite: with millions upon millions of unique planets to visit in an ever-expanding universe. …
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Building AI for games is much more than just characters. While it’s now being used to improve animation, spot bugs and even detect cheaters, arguably the second most popular application is in generating videogame content. One of the biggest challenges any game developer can face is ensuring a lot of variety. Bringing players back to …
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When we consider artificial intelligence for non-player characters (NPCs) in games and how it evolved over the years, two of the most influential games come from the first-person shooter genre: Half-Life and Halo 2. Welcome to Black Mesa Half-Life, released on PC by Valve back in 1998 and it was a real turning point for …
When you head to a search engine and type ‘top 10 best videogame AI’, the resulting lists and articles will often contain many a familiar face if you’re been reading the History of AI series. You’ll find classics like StarCraft or Halo, and perhaps some beloved stealth games like Splinter Cell or The Last of …
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As a homage to modl.ai’s mission of seeking to remove the shackles of gamedevelopment, our team attended and participated in the March 2023 GameDevelopers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, CA. Through meeting andconnecting with current and future game developers and publishers, the modl.aiteam was able to spark conversations around the continued transformation of AIengines, specifically …
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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 …
