Hello all,

I think I have a contribution to make.. But as usual, I want to make sure there's any interest in it first, because it will take me some time to make it ready for A6 readers.. So here's my offer..

I have prepared a complete design document, to help anyone who is interested in developing their own AI system. My paper is not even relevant to Gamestudio, which means that this paper could be used with any other engine that you like as well. But this also means, that I'm not going to include any specific code about building an AI for gamestudio.

What I will cover in this document, is everything you will need in order to start developing your own professional AI, using methods that are being used by experts from the game industry. This means, I'm not going to include any mumbo-jumbo code and algorithms that I(a 25 year old amateur guy) happened to scrap together. Instead, I'm going to put together a collection of the best methods I've found from books and articles on AI, and managed to put together into a working AI system, after a lot of hard hard work.

This paper, of course serves as the design paper for Intense Ai(a sub-component of IntenseX, which I'll soon start selling again). But this contribution is not for IntenseX customers, but for everyone else who wants to develop their own system, and needs some basic plan to get started with. The document will assume you have a couple of years of experience in c-script(or your preferable language) in your belt, and you are serious about developing a powerfull AI solution for your game.


The contents of this document will be following:

Code:

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Planning
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1. ...............Project Objectives
2. ...............Requirements
3. ...............Problems and Solutions
   3.1 ...........Weak Ai (vs Strong Ai)
       3.1.1 .....Decision Making
       3.1.2 .....Problem Solving
       3.1.3 .....Navigation
       3.1.4 .....Autonomous Animation
4. ...............UML Package Diagram
5. ...............Similar Systems
   5.1 ...........DirectIA

Implementation
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6. ...............Aims and Objectives
7. ...............Applications
   7.1 ...........Ego-shooter game
   7.2 ...........Suburb simulation
8. ...............Functional Specification
   8.1 ...........Ai Architecture
       8.1.1 .....World State Representation
       8.1.2 .....Sensory System
       8.1.3 .....Working Memory
       8.1.4 .....Action System
   8.2 ...........Behaviors
       8.2.1 .....Needs and Opportunities
       8.2.2 .....Goals
       8.2.3 .....Actions
9. ...............Integration testing
   9.1 ...........Lite-C
       9.1.1 .....World Editor
       9.1.2 .....Customizable Panels
   9.2 ...........Suburb Simulation
       9.2.1 .....Constructing the search space
       9.2.2 .....Setting up Player and Pedestrians
   9.3 ...........Ego-shooter game
       9.3.1 .....Constructing the search space
       9.3.2 .....Setting up Player, sidekick and foes
10. ..............Summarising
   10.1 ..........Main Achievements
   10.2 ..........Limitations
   10.3 ..........Future work
11. ..............References

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Approximate size: 60 pages


So.... that's it. Would anybody be interested in this?


Cheers,
Aris

i think its a realy cool contribution, and would help to beginn and understand a ai project, so why not

That'll be one of the best contributions i've ever seen. I'm very interested, because i'm going to try making an advanced non-shooter AI.

That would be awesome

I am also interested in something like that. I would even spend a few bucks for it.

Sounds perfect. I´m very interested!

I´m very interested also, but its structure will abstract and general or fps based?

I'm also very interested.It's a cool contribution.

holy responses...

Frank, that's too kind.. but i'll release it for free..

demiGod, up to the point of 8.2, i never mention what you can use the AI for, which means, the achitecture can be used for anything you like. Then I go on, designing specific actions and behaviors that will cover the test applications that I use the AI in, pedestrian ai and an ego-shooter game(mother's den). But if you understand the theory, you'll be able to design your own behaviors instead. The title of this paper is going to be: 'A tool for creating intelligent agents for use in real-time simulations', which covers pretty much everything.


Now before I get everyone's hopes up, i want to stress the point that this is not a tutorial, and you'll not be able to write anything in c-script right after you read this. See it more of a guideline that will put lots of technologies and articles into perspective, and how you could use them together to create good generic AI. It also get a bit formal at places that it needs to (the functional specification). When I'll write the IntenseX manual, i won't be that formal(i just don't want to scare potentional IntenseX buyers with this )


If you're interested in this, please keep the replies coming...

Cheers,
Aris

So, it will be a great contribution indeed !
Keep it the good work then.