AI/Scripting Jon uber Lao Jason PWN0R Wong Nathan Britton

AI Balance Difficulties Game AI creates the illusion of intelligent behavior Anything 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 Scutz Scrappers Raiders 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

. 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Lua Pros: Open Source Small, lightweight Cons: Out of date documentation Start w/nothing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

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