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Vote Now! 2009 AiGameDev.com Awards for Game AI

Alex J. Champandard

Welcome to the 3rd Annual AiGameDev.com Awards for Game AI, where the best games of the year are nominated and voted by professionals, enthusiasts, and researchers in artificial intelligence for games. Last week you submitted your nominations, and here are the finalists. You have exactly one week to pick the best candidates by visiting this page. Vote now!

The entries below were chosen thanks to emails, comments, and discussion in our official IRC channel at irc.freenode.net in #gameai. Each nominee had at least two people behind it. Special thanks to Phil Carlisle, Kevin Dill, and Ricardo J. Mendez for their suggestions and descriptions.

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