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AIIDE
2008
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Effects of Communication on the Evolution of Squad Behaviours
As the non-playable characters (NPCs) of squad-based shooter computer games share a common goal, they should work together in teams and display cooperative behaviours that are tac...
Darren Doherty, Colm O'Riordan
AIIDE
2008
13 years 7 months ago
The Rise of Potential Fields in Real Time Strategy Bots
Bots for Real Time Strategy (RTS) games are challenging to implement. A bot controls a number of units that may have to navigate in a partially unknown environment, while at the s...
Johan Hagelbäck, Stefan J. Johansson
AIIDE
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Direction Maps for Cooperative Pathfinding
Cooperative behavior is a desired trait in many fields from computer games to robotics. Yet, achieving cooperative behavior is often difficult, as maintaining shared information a...
M. Renee Jansen, Nathan R. Sturtevant
AIIDE
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Otello: A Next-Generation Reputation System for Humans and NPCs
This paper introduces Online Alchemy's Otello technology as a way to enable reputational capabilities beyond any found in games or other online social contexts today. This te...
Michael Sellers
AIIDE
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Constructing Complex NPC Behavior via Multi-Objective Neuroevolution
It is difficult to discover effective behavior for NPCs automatically. For instance, evolutionary methods can learn sophisticated behaviors based on a single objective, but realis...
Jacob Schrum, Risto Miikkulainen
AIIDE
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Stochastic Plan Optimization in Real-Time Strategy Games
We present a domain independent off-line adaptation technique called Stochastic Plan Optimization for finding and improving plans in real-time strategy games. Our method is based ...
Andrew Trusty, Santiago Ontañón, Ash...
AIIDE
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Automatic Generation of Game Level Solutions as Storyboards
Interactive Storytelling techniques are attracting much interest for their potential to develop new game genres but also as another form of procedural content generation, specific...
David Pizzi, Marc Cavazza, Alex Whittaker, Jean-Lu...