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Civilization III and Civilization IV designer Soren Johnson will be holding a lecture at next year's Game Developer's Conference (GDC) in San Fransisco. In a 60-minute session titled Playing To Lose: AI And "CIVILIZATION" he'll discuss the AI in Civilization:
The lecture is primarily aimed at game designers and AI programmers. You can find more info about it on the GDC website.
GDC 2008 will be held February 18-22 2008 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Fransisco and is the premier game developers convention in the world, offering hundreds of sessions, workshops, summits, tutorials and other events aimed at anyone (interested in) working in the game industry, as well as an expo. Registration is currently open with attendence fees varying from $75 to $1995. For details, check out the official site.
Artificial intelligence performs a crucial role for any strategy game, providing a compelling opponent for solo play. While many of the challenges of AI development are technical, there are also significant design challenges as well. Can the AI behave like a human? Should it? Should the game design be adjusted to accommodate the limitations of the AI? Should the AI be exposed to modders? How do we make the AI fun? Should the AI cheat? If so, how much? Do we even want the AI to win? This session suggests some possible answers to these questions using the "CIVILIZATION" series as a case study. Ultimately, games are many things to many different people - fantasy, competition, narrative, even construction set - and the best AI will support as many different approaches to the game world as possible.
The lecture is primarily aimed at game designers and AI programmers. You can find more info about it on the GDC website.
GDC 2008 will be held February 18-22 2008 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Fransisco and is the premier game developers convention in the world, offering hundreds of sessions, workshops, summits, tutorials and other events aimed at anyone (interested in) working in the game industry, as well as an expo. Registration is currently open with attendence fees varying from $75 to $1995. For details, check out the official site.