Lectures

Returning to our lectures on AI, we move away from simulating individual characters and talk about how we would simulate another player. This is the AI that is necessary for complex strategy games.    Details ›

Sensing is the most expensive part of the sense-think-act cycle. In this lecture we show how to optimize this part of the process, so that we can increase the complexity of our NPC behavior.    Details ›

When people think about game AI, character behavior is the thing that they usually think of first. How do we control NPCs to move and act without any input?    Details ›

While we still have more to talk about with regards to game AI, we need to take a quick detour to talk again about design. With alpha release around the corner, we need to talk about how we do proper level design.    Details ›

We start our sequence of AI lectures talking about pathfinding. This is the process of using AI algorithms to move your game characters about the terrain.    Details ›