Soren Johnson: 7 Deadly Sins for Strategy Games I am a big fan of Soren Johnson's work. That being said, I keep an eye on his blog, Designer Notes. In a recent post, he listed what he felt were the "seven deadly sins" of strategy game design. Most of them were dead on for whatever reason. …
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AIGameDev Members Area
http://www.intrinsicalgorithm.com/IAonAI/2008/10/aigamedev-members-area.htmlAIGameDev Members Area For that thin slice of the industry that may visit this blog that doesn't already know about AIGameDev's new members area, you are definately going to want to jump over there and check out what's going on. Alex Chapandard's pad has been the best place for game AI info over the past year and now he is really stepping it up a notch. …
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Fixing pathfinding a la Paul Tozour
http://www.intrinsicalgorithm.com/IAonAI/2008/08/fixing-pathfinding-la-paul-tozour.htmlFixing pathfinding a la Paul Tozour My friend and colleague, Paul Tozour, has put up an excellent post at the internet blog he shares with some other big names, Game/AI. In it, he covers all sorts of stuff that is "wrong" with pathfinding and offers evidence as to why nav meshes are better than waypoint graphs. …
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Everybody Dies, Except the Bots: An API for DEFCON
http://aigamedev.com/essays/defcon-bots-apisame abilities as the player: A fog of war hides opponent activities, targets and positions of opposing units are largely unknown. In the case of games (especially RTS games) it is often much easier to let the AI see everything. Soren Johnson gave an interesting talk about that at this years GDC, in essence the Civilization 4 AI has to cheat to be challenging. Writing an embodied AI that can beat good players proved just too difficult. For researchers, however, the situation is often a bit different. They can use
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Web site troubles... new posts coming!
http://www.intrinsicalgorithm.com/post-playem/2008/05/web-si...at about the same time as I go shopping for a new ISP - something I don't want to have to waste time doing. Because the site has been up and down for 5 weeks, I've been a little hesitant about posting. I have plenty of material I want to put on IA on AI and have been wanting to start putting some new observations on here. I have been assured that the ISP issue will be solved soon (although I was told that over a month ago). However, I think that I may just start writing some of this material anyway.
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Even more site problems
http://www.intrinsicalgorithm.com/IANews/2008/05/even-more-s...at about the same time as I go shopping for a new ISP - something I don't want to have to waste time doing. Because the site has been up and down for 5 weeks, I've been a little hesitant about posting. I have plenty of material I want to put on IA on AI and have been wanting to start putting some new observations on Post-Play'em. I have been assured that the ISP issue will be solved soon (although I was told that over a month ago). However, I think that I may just start writing some of this material
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Intrinsic Algorithm News
http://www.intrinsicalgorithm.com/IANewsLatest blog posts: Dave Mark is a contributor to the latest release in the Game AI Programming Wisdom series. You can find more information on his article here. Get all sorts of Intrinsic Algorithm gear online. T-shirts, sweatshirts, mousepads,
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Web host upgrade = site freeze
http://www.intrinsicalgorithm.com/IANews/2008/03/web-host-up...March 31st. I will have to assume that this means that blog entries and comments and all message board posts that are made during that period will be lost on Monday. Therefore, I will not be posting anything during this coming weekend either here, IA on AI, or Post-Play'em. Also, please don't frustrate yourself by making a comment or posting on the message board as I can't guarantee that it will survive. I hope this isn't frustrating and that all goes well. I'm sure I will have something to say come
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http://www.liamdevine.co.uk/blogBlogroll Ai Game Dev Ben Garney Glenn Fiedler Herb Sutter IAonAI John Hattan jollyjeffers Let's kill Dave progamming, beer and metal who blogs less then me? Wolfgang Engel
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Post-Play'em - Observations on Game AI
http://www.intrinsicalgorithm.com/post-playemIA Information Front Page Game Development AI Consulting Company History AI Wisdom 4 - MADTFDA Communication Blogs IA News IA on AI Post Play'em AIGameDev.com Designers and Testers... Good vs. Fun AI Beyond Single Frame Decisions GDC Notes & Audio Message Forums IA News IA Discussion ATM News ATM Discussion Airline/Aviation
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Bioshock interview and Civ 4 notes
http://www.intrinsicalgorithm.com/post-playem/2008/02/biosho...Ok... this is kind of a Post-Play'em article. Check out my taped GDC interview with John Abercrombie, AI Lead on Bioshock over at IA on AI. As I play further into the game, I will eventually post actual play observations. My interview has kinda spoiled the purity of my game experience, though. I know what to look for!
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Post-GDC coma is lifting
http://www.intrinsicalgorithm.com/IANews/2008/02/post-gdc-co...cards that almost didn't fit under the seat in front of me on the plane, tons of notes to sift through, etc. Oh yeah... AND I had to get back in sync with the real world such as it is in the Central time zone. For those that haven't glanced at IA on AI lately, the AI-related posts about GDC are going there. One is Soren Johnson's lecture on his Civ 4 AI. The other is my (audio) interview with John Abercrombie of 2K Boston about the AI he did for Bioshock. There will be more as I wade through all my
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Post-GDC coma is lifting
http://www.intrinsicalgorithm.com/IANews/2008/02/post-gdc-co...to get back in sync with the real world such as it is in the Central time zone. For those that haven't glanced at IA on AI lately, the AI-related posts about GDC are going there. One is Soren Johnson's lecture on his Civ 4 AI. The other is my (audio) interview with John Abercrombie of 2K Boston about the AI he did for Bioshock. There will be more as I wade through all my notes and memories of the last week. Specifically, I need to touch on Ray Kurzweil's keynote, Damian Isla's lecture on the Halo 3 AI, my brief interview with the
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