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No Respect, I Tell Ya! How I’m really annoyed at game reviewers. (And how we respond to them.) Dave Mark Intrinsic Algorithm LLC

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Dave Mark Intrinsic Algorithm LLC. No Respect, I Tell Ya!. How I’m really annoyed at game reviewers. (And how we respond to them.). If you can’t say something nice…. Google for: game AI review. If you can’t say something nice…. Google for: bad game AI review. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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No Respect, I Tell Ya!How I’m really annoyed

at game reviewers.(And how we respond to them.)

Dave MarkIntrinsic Algorithm LLC

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Google for:game AI review

If you can’t say something nice…

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Google for:bad game AI review

If you can’t say something nice…

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If you can’t say something nice…

Bad

Weak

StupidPathetic

Annoying

Idiotic

Retarded

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Google for:good game AI review

If you can’t say something nice…

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If you can’t say something nice…

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No wonder people prefer PvP

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All I ever hear outta you is…

020406080

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Treatment

Game AI According to Reviewers

BadGood

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Excuse me? Helloooo…?

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Treatment

Game AI According to Reviewers

BadGoodDurrr…

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What is there to notice?

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We don’t notice the typical stuff

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We notice when things go wrong!

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We notice when things are cool!

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What is cool, though?

Game players(and reviewers)

don’t even realizewhen we do things

that are cool!Unless we tell them we are!

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“The way it should be…”

The more our AI starts to look “natural” the less

people notice it!

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“Waaa! It’s too hard!”

The better our AI performs, the more

people complain that it isn’t fun.

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You can’t have it both ways

“The AI just stands in the middle of the room waiting for me to shoot him in the head.”

“It pisses me off that the AI hides so I can’t shoot him!”

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You can’t have it both ways

“The AI walks straight towards me and doesn’t show any sign of intelligent strategy or tactics.”

“Damnit! It’s no fair that the AI sneaks around next to me and snipes me in the head!”

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You can’t have it both ways

“The stupid AI doesn’t seem to notice me when I enter a room and do [stuff] right in front of him.”

“No matter what I do, the AI always sees me and opens fire… even when I’m hidden!”

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Catch-22Relegated to

ObscurityPeople Start

Whining!

Improvement

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Don’t be dumb…

The #1 rule of creating game AI is don’t let the

agent do anything stupid.

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Don’t be dumb…

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Don’t be dumb…

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Don’t be dumb…

The #1 rule of creating game AI is don’t let the

agent do anything stupid.

Are we sellingourselves short?

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Maybe if we started creating…• More challenging AI• More life-like AI• AI that actually did flank the player• AI that actually did run away• AI that actually did try to hide and sneak

Eventually we might start to get some respect from the

players, and the reviewers?

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Don’t be dumb…

Perhaps since the public expects more from us…

… we should now expect more from ourselves?