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Game AI: Beauty and the Beast

August 8th, 2007 | Editorial | Alex J. Champandard

Game AI has come a long way, but yet it’s still far off from meeting our expectations — despite the fact that developers “cheat.” It turns out the process of building AI for games is no easier than building traditional AI decision-making and control systems. What’s the problem and what’s next for game AI?

Research Opportunities in Game AI

July 28th, 2007 | Questions | Alex J. Champandard

suoju asks “I am a Ph.D. candidate doing research on AI in games. I know it is quite a broad topic, but if you can point me in a direction which I can focus on, I would really appreciate it.”
There are quite a few research topics that involve applying artificial intelligence to games, […]

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