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 …
Category Archives: AI in Games
Top 5 most influential first-person shooters for game AI
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 …
Continue reading “Top 5 most influential first-person shooters for game AI”
Moment-to-moment Engagement Prediction through the Eyes of the Observer: PUBG Streaming on Twitch
Towards Game-Playing AI Benchmarks via Performance Reporting Standards
Towards Realistic Optimization Benchmarks: A Questionnaire on the Properties of Real-World Problems
From Chess and Atari to StarCraft and Beyond: How Game AI is Driving the World of AI
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 …
Continue reading “We tried learning AI from games. How about learning from players?”
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 …
Continue reading “Like an artificial Intelligence in a candy store”
