Making one enemy behave intelligently is already difficult. Making hundreds of soldiers fight convincingly across a huge battlefield is an entirely different engineering problem. Large combat environments can contain infantry, vehicles, squads, defensive positions, changing…
A game character can have ten possible actions available and still behave like a machine. The problem often appears when decisions are controlled by rigid rules. If health drops below 30%, heal. If the player…
Modern game AI has access to more techniques than ever. Developers can use utility scoring, planners, machine learning, hierarchical state machines, sophisticated perception systems, and combinations of several approaches at once. Yet behavior trees are…
An enemy that repeats the same attack forever quickly becomes predictable. Players learn the pattern, discover the safest response, and eventually stop thinking. The encounter may still look impressive, but strategically it has already been…
Great game AI does not need to defeat the player at every opportunity. In fact, an enemy that knows your exact location, aims perfectly, and instantly chooses the mathematically best action can feel less believable…
