Presentation on basic introduction to Artificial intelligence in games.

1. CS380/CS580 Artificial Intelligence for Games
Artificial Intelligence
In Games
Aakash Chotrani
(B.Tech I.T., MSCS Student)

2. AI in Games
A. What is Game AI?
B. AI Applications
C. Traditional Definition

3. • But have you ever wondered what happens
behind the scenes?
▐ We all love playing video games

4. NPC (Non Player Character)
Adversaries
Neutral Characters
Co-operative Characters
▐ First thing that comes to your mind

5. Sense
• See and hear
• Remember info
• Current state
Think
• Intelligent Decisions(choose best option/move)
• Learning and adaptation
Act
• Manipulate objects
• Manipulate body(Animation ,Verbal or Gestures)
▐ What do NPC’s DO?

6. Let’s push our Understanding of
Game AI

7. Finding path through a dungeon
▐ Pathfinding in Game

8. ▐ Creating Interactive story

9. Creating auto generated trees
▐ Generating Content for Games

10. Auto Generated Cities or dungeons
▐ Generating Maps for Games

11. • Creating NPC
• Pathfinding
• Creating Interactive story
• Generating Content for Game
▐ Application of AI in Games

12. Wikipedia definition of AI:-
▐ Traditional Definition of AI
“Techniques to produce the
illusion of intelligence in
the behavior of NPCs”

13. • Techniques to automatically generate game content
(at runtime or offline)
• Techniques to detect player’s intent or what they are
doing
• Techniques to data mine player data
▐ Extra Add-on definition

14. CS380/CS580 Artificial Intelligence for Games
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