AI/Scripting

Jon “uber” Lao

Jason “PWN0R” Wong

Nathan Britton

AI

Balance DifficultiesGame AI creates the illusion of intelligent

behaviorAnything intelligent is motivated by their

environment

Assumptions about Environment ->Game design ideas

The World

Why robots killing stuffs

Buried Ancient Civilization Metal remnants scattered throughout the land Humans are the pot holes on the road.

AI

ScutzScrappersRaiders

Open Steer

Scutz

Basic Enemy – size of VW Bug

Behavior: Scavengers/Workers

Goal: Clearing forests for excavating ruins

Scrappers

HUGE, slow, heavily armored.

Single-track mind: destroy buildings

Gathering resources from debris

Weak point and risk

Raiders

Combat oriented Intelligent, aggressive(pursues player)

Lead and defend other robots (Scutz)

Scrapper Algorithm

Serial Seeking

Scutz Algorithm

Wander

Scot Algorithm

Flee

Raider Algorithm

Pursuit

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Raider Algorithm

Lead Swarm

Open Steer

Open source C++ steering library

Toolkit of steering behaviors Sample Codes OpenSteerDemo Framework

Windows, Linux, OSX support

Demo

Scripting

Interpreted (not-compiled) for fast prototyping

Python vs Lua

Python

Pros: Open Source Powerful Bound w/Ogre SDK

Cons: Very Large Python-Ogre binding requires more software

Lua

Pros: Open Source Small, lightweight

Cons: Out of date documentation Start w/nothing

Python

We take care of the complexity for you! Python up and running in 10 minutes

Ability to pull directly from Ogre

Questions?