AI Controlled Characters in Games and Virtual Worlds
There’s a moment in Red Dead Redemption 2 that stuck with me for weeks. I was riding through Valentine when a drunk stumbled out of a saloon, bumped into a…
There’s a moment in Red Dead Redemption 2 that stuck with me for weeks. I was riding through Valentine when a drunk stumbled out of a saloon, bumped into a…
I’ve been covering the gaming industry for over a decade now, and honestly, nothing has transformed player experiences quite like artificial intelligence. What started as simple pathfinding algorithms in the…
There’s a moment I remember vividly from playing The Last of Us Part II. An enemy called out my position to his squadmates, flanked around a corner I didn’t expect,…
When I first started working in game development back in 2015, creating believable enemy behavior meant writing hundreds of lines of if-else statements. It was tedious, prone to bugs, and…
When people hear “AI in games,” their minds usually jump to enemy characters chasing them through corridors. Fair enough that’s the most visible application. But after years of following game…