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A game AI production shell framework: generating AI opponents for geomorphic-isometric strategy games via modeling of expert player intuition

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DIMEA '07: Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Digital interactive media in entertainment and arts

Pages 84 - 90

https://doi.org/10.1145/1306813.1306836

Published: 19 September 2007 Publication History

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One of the most challenging aspects of game AI implementation in computer games is in the production of artificial opponents that can demonstrate human-intuitive strategic skills. In this paper, the need and requirements for a quick and efficient method to capture these skills are identified. Based on these requirements, a framework for a game AI shell is proposed. A case study is presented to demonstrate the workability of the framework by employing a prototype shell to generate a game AI middleware for a tabletop strategy-base game.

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Rumsamrong MChiou A(2018)CRISIS-ExpertProceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Systems10.1145/3293475.3293478(14-19)Online publication date: 17-Nov-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3293475.3293478
Rushing JTiller J(2011)Rule learning approaches for symmetric multiplayer gamesProceedings of the 2011 16th International Conference on Computer Games10.1109/CGAMES.2011.6000326(121-125)Online publication date: 27-Jul-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/CGAMES.2011.6000326
Chiou AWong K(2008)Player Adaptive Entertainment Computing (PAEC): Mechanism to model user satisfaction by using Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) techniques2008 IEEE Symposium On Computational Intelligence and Games10.1109/CIG.2008.5035660(343-349)Online publication date: Dec-2008
https://doi.org/10.1109/CIG.2008.5035660

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A game AI production shell framework: generating AI opponents for geomorphic-isometric strategy games via modeling of expert player intuition

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DIMEA '07: Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Digital interactive media in entertainment and arts

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ISBN:9781595937087

DOI:10.1145/1306813

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Rumsamrong MChiou A(2018)CRISIS-ExpertProceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Systems10.1145/3293475.3293478(14-19)Online publication date: 17-Nov-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3293475.3293478
Rushing JTiller J(2011)Rule learning approaches for symmetric multiplayer gamesProceedings of the 2011 16th International Conference on Computer Games10.1109/CGAMES.2011.6000326(121-125)Online publication date: 27-Jul-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/CGAMES.2011.6000326
Chiou AWong K(2008)Player Adaptive Entertainment Computing (PAEC): Mechanism to model user satisfaction by using Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) techniques2008 IEEE Symposium On Computational Intelligence and Games10.1109/CIG.2008.5035660(343-349)Online publication date: Dec-2008
https://doi.org/10.1109/CIG.2008.5035660

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