Tag: artificial life
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AI as puppetry, and rediscovering a long forgotten game.
AI in games is a hot topic at the moment, but most examples of this are attempts to create human-like behaviour in characters – a kind of advanced puppetry. These characters are also generally designed beforehand rather than reacting and learning from player behaviour, let alone being allowed to adapt in an open ended manner.…
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Algorithmic fungi patterns
Central to the borrowed scenery game is an ecosystem of fungi that players will grow to feed the plants found by foragers in the city of Ghent using Boskoi. These fungi will work differently from the plants in Germination X, partly in response to some interesting game testing feedback – the fungi will only grow…