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Interesting video: "Hierarchical Dynamic Pathfinding for Large Voxel Worlds - GDC Vault" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG9SoTF1mCI

#gamedev #gameai #programming

Interesting video: "Hierarchical Dynamic Pathfinding for Large Voxel Worlds - GDC Vault" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG9SoTF1mCI

#gamedev #gameai #programming

Interesting video: "Pathfinding in games. How to do it for 30k entities." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anGdYJu_eH4

#gamedev #gameai #programming

Interesting video: "Pathfinding in games. How to do it for 30k entities." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anGdYJu_eH4

#gamedev #gameai #programming

Game AI Uncovered: Volume Five is out 🎉

I must say, the cover art is extremely slick -- it's from Lords of the Fallen. Hopefully the content is as well 😊 It features one chapter from your humble servitor, titled AI LOD in Multiplayer Games, alongside many others from great contributors.

It's available here to order: https://www.routledge.com/Game-AI-Uncovered-Volume-Five/Roberts/p/book/9781032840536

#GameDev #GameAI

Game AI Uncovered: Volume Five is out 🎉

I must say, the cover art is extremely slick -- it's from Lords of the Fallen. Hopefully the content is as well 😊 It features one chapter from your humble servitor, titled AI LOD in Multiplayer Games, alongside many others from great contributors.

It's available here to order: https://www.routledge.com/Game-AI-Uncovered-Volume-Five/Roberts/p/book/9781032840536

#GameDev #GameAI

Interesting read: "New pathfinding algorithm - Factorio Friday Facts" https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-317 & "Belts optimization for 0.15" https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-176

#gamedev #gameai #programming

Interesting read: "New pathfinding algorithm - Factorio Friday Facts" https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-317 & "Belts optimization for 0.15" https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-176

#gamedev #gameai #programming

Ladies and gentlemen, here's the story of the craziest bug I worked on during the late stages of shipping #MindsEye. The final fix went in exactly one week before release, just in time for the day 1 patch.

I wish I had the opportunity to do a full post mortem of that project, but this will probably never happen. That bug was a gem though. The world needs to know about it before my memory fades away.

#GameDev #GameAI #Programming

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Ladies and gentlemen, here's the story of the craziest bug I worked on during the late stages of shipping #MindsEye. The final fix went in exactly one week before release, just in time for the day 1 patch.

I wish I had the opportunity to do a full post mortem of that project, but this will probably never happen. That bug was a gem though. The world needs to know about it before my memory fades away.

#GameDev #GameAI #Programming

1/n

AI-NPC's: slimme personages die onthouden wie jij bent

AI-NPC's met geheugen, emoties en dynamisch gedrag veranderen in 2026 hoe games aanvoelen. Geen scripts, maar personages die reageren op jouw keuzes.

Lees meer: https://www.mastanet.com/artikel/ai-npc-met-geheugen-en-persoonlijkheid-2026

#AINPCs #AIingames #dynamischeNPCs #2026gamingtrends #gameAI #NPCgeheugen #AIpersoonlijkheden #Mastanet

My dissertation is now published: https://hdl.handle.net/2047/D20817765

It details my participatory + co-design research on EvolvingBehavior (https://evolvingbehavior.npc.codes), a creativity support tool for game designers - including why LLMs are NOT appropriate for game dev, and what we can collectively create instead. Happy to chat about it!

Relatedly, I'm now looking for (remote) game engineering positions, especially with cool game AI (non-LLM) or PCG work! My portfolio: https://npc.codes

#GameDev #GameAI

AMD Schola v2 drops today! 🔥

Our #opensource #UnrealEngine 5 plugin makes it easy to create AI that learns by playing your game — just like a human would.

Perfect ✅ for:

🚀 Smarter NPCs
🎯 Realistic opponents
🌍 Dynamic game worlds

https://gpuopen.com/amd-schola/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=schola

#GameDev #GameAI

AMD Schola v2 drops today! 🔥

Our #opensource #UnrealEngine 5 plugin makes it easy to create AI that learns by playing your game — just like a human would.

Perfect ✅ for:

🚀 Smarter NPCs
🎯 Realistic opponents
🌍 Dynamic game worlds

https://gpuopen.com/amd-schola/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=schola

#GameDev #GameAI

In 'Where Winds Meet,' players are outsmarting AI riddlers by simply telling NPCs they’ve solved the puzzles—no real answers needed.

This quirky AI glitch highlights the growing pains of AI-driven gaming. #GameAI #WhereWindsMeet

https://www.thegamer.com/where-winds-meet-players-telling-games-ai-they-solved-riddles/

My favourite way to play “Shooters” has always been co-op.
I switched my AI coding (Climate modelling, Chess, etc.) to making “bots” for the Quake Engine based games back in the 1990s, just so me and a few friends could have some fun against Artificial Enemies. It really took off.

For an arcade machine project in 1999, I had to invent “Artificial Stupidity”, because my Bots were too good for the players to beat. Playtesters died all the time, so I taught the bots to do things like:
⭐️Go the wrong way.
⭐️Miss valuable pickups.
⭐️Worsen their aim.
⭐️‘Hear’ and ‘see’ less.

Fun experience, teaching them to play like a human. As players progressed through the levels, the bots grew more intelligent, gradually providing more challenge, so players felt they got their money’s worth.
#coding #ai #gameai #shooters #coding #quake #coop #jollycooperation

My favourite way to play “Shooters” has always been co-op.
I switched my AI coding (Climate modelling, Chess, etc.) to making “bots” for the Quake Engine based games back in the 1990s, just so me and a few friends could have some fun against Artificial Enemies. It really took off.

For an arcade machine project in 1999, I had to invent “Artificial Stupidity”, because my Bots were too good for the players to beat. Playtesters died all the time, so I taught the bots to do things like:
⭐️Go the wrong way.
⭐️Miss valuable pickups.
⭐️Worsen their aim.
⭐️‘Hear’ and ‘see’ less.

Fun experience, teaching them to play like a human. As players progressed through the levels, the bots grew more intelligent, gradually providing more challenge, so players felt they got their money’s worth.
#coding #ai #gameai #shooters #coding #quake #coop #jollycooperation

Predicting Combat Outcomes in Total War
Miguel Lopez-Bachiller & James Kwan (Creative Assembly) reveal how they used supervised learning to improve AI battle decisions and autoresolve in Total War. Get insights from data, dev challenges & R&D collab.
📍 Nov 3–4 | Goldsmiths, London
🎟️ https://www.tickettailor.com/events/gameaieventscic/1651469
#GameAI #MachineLearning #TotalWar

Predicting Combat Outcomes in Total War
Miguel Lopez-Bachiller & James Kwan (Creative Assembly) reveal how they used supervised learning to improve AI battle decisions and autoresolve in Total War. Get insights from data, dev challenges & R&D collab.
📍 Nov 3–4 | Goldsmiths, London
🎟️ https://www.tickettailor.com/events/gameaieventscic/1651469
#GameAI #MachineLearning #TotalWar

🎮 When Research Meets Release Dates: Production-Grade RL for Games
Wesley Kerr (Riot Games) shares real-world lessons on making reinforcement learning work at production scale—beyond the hype.
🗓️ Nov 3–4 | 📍 Goldsmiths, London
🎟️ Get tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/gameaieventscic/1651469
#GameAI #ReinforcementLearning #AIDevelopment

🎮 When Research Meets Release Dates: Production-Grade RL for Games
Wesley Kerr (Riot Games) shares real-world lessons on making reinforcement learning work at production scale—beyond the hype.
🗓️ Nov 3–4 | 📍 Goldsmiths, London
🎟️ Get tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/gameaieventscic/1651469
#GameAI #ReinforcementLearning #AIDevelopment

From Metrics to Meaning: Effort-Aware and Explainable AI for Game Pathfinding by Yetunde Longe-Folajimi (Wentworth Institute of Technology), shows how AI can help decode level difficulty & design smarter procedural content.

🎟️ Nov 3–4: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/gameaieventscic/1651469

#GameAI #ProceduralDesign #GameDev

From Metrics to Meaning: Effort-Aware and Explainable AI for Game Pathfinding by Yetunde Longe-Folajimi (Wentworth Institute of Technology), shows how AI can help decode level difficulty & design smarter procedural content.

🎟️ Nov 3–4: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/gameaieventscic/1651469

#GameAI #ProceduralDesign #GameDev

Big Brain, btw, is designed to be data-oriented, so I might provide an API that lets you define game AI in .kdl files that look like this. It could also, for example, eventually use a hypothetical node editor (thing Blender Geometry Nodes), to define the same data.

#KDL #Bevy #BigBrain #GameAI

Big Brain, btw, is designed to be data-oriented, so I might provide an API that lets you define game AI in .kdl files that look like this. It could also, for example, eventually use a hypothetical node editor (thing Blender Geometry Nodes), to define the same data.

#KDL #Bevy #BigBrain #GameAI

Seeking feedback from Bevy and Big Brain users: how does this new API look?

Under the hood, this would be a high-performance, low-overhead API powered by Observers, but this is all you would actually need to write yourself.

I'm pretty sure I can get this to work with Bevy's current featureset, including the Very Fun async actions situation here.

#Bevy #BigBrain #GameAI #Rust #RustLang

Seeking feedback from Bevy and Big Brain users: how does this new API look?

Under the hood, this would be a high-performance, low-overhead API powered by Observers, but this is all you would actually need to write yourself.

I'm pretty sure I can get this to work with Bevy's current featureset, including the Very Fun async actions situation here.

#Bevy #BigBrain #GameAI #Rust #RustLang

New video from @AIandGames about the dialogue system in Donkey Kong Bonanza!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyGYxtJL_GM

#GameDev #IndieGameDev #GameAI

New video from @AIandGames about the dialogue system in Donkey Kong Bonanza!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyGYxtJL_GM

#GameDev #IndieGameDev #GameAI

Randomly checking my website visitor stats and noticed a little spike today in traffic to https://brookmiles.ca/2013/09/23/mark-of-the-ninja-ai-article-published-in-game-ai-pro/ about the article I wrote for Game AI Pro back in 2013 about the enemy interest AI system in Mark of the Ninja.

Checked the referrer and it was from this post today about how the AI in the game Skin Deep was influenced by that article https://blendogames.com/news/post/2025-07-07-skindeepenemybrains/

I'm glad to know somebody has actually read it, and even found it useful! :ameowbongo:

#GameDev #GameAI #MarkOfTheNinja

Interesting video: "Alien: Isolation - The Retrospective | AI and Games" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeIkEoHglQQ

#gamedev #gamedesign #gameai

[EDIT: book now gone, thx all for boosts]

Anyone want a free paper copy of the first volume of Game AI Pro? I have a spare copy.

> Game AI Pro: Collected Wisdom of Game AI Professionals
> Steven Rabin - ISBN 9781466565968 - 2013

I'll pay for postage in the UK. Note that the entire book is free to download from https://www.gameaipro.com/

#GiveAway #GameDev #IndieDev #GameAI #Free #FreeBooks

Interesting video: "How Watch Dogs: Legion's 'Play as Anyone' Simulation Works" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXn_c-HM0Vk

#gamedev #gameai

Game AI Uncovered: Volume Three is out! I haven't contributed to this one so it's free of my broken English gibberish. You can order here with the discount code DIS20: https://www.routledge.com/Game-AI-Uncovered-Volume-Three/Roberts/p/book/9781032532561 #GameAI #GameDev

Oh - what's that?
I'm beyond proud to represent Havok at this years AI Summit!

Are you curious on what considerations go into supporting NPC navigation in large game worlds?

Gain insight into techniques for efficient NPC navigation in expansive game environments and learn the common pitfalls to avoid. & discover how to structure a world partition-based solution in Unreal Engine & adapt editor workflows.

See you a the GDC Ai Summit?

https://schedule.gdconf.com/session/game-ai-summit-navigating-expansive-worlds-implementing-custom-large-world-support-in-unreal/910181

#UnrealEngine #gameai #unreal

Interesting video: "Half-Life - Roach AI Demonstration" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elwb2lV88hM

#gamedev #gameai

Came upon some cool step-by-step tutorials for LimboAI💡 created by DevWorm. Check 'em out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZHzMO90IwQ

💡 C++ plugin for #GodotEngine - behavior trees & state machines

#limboai #gameai

Came upon some cool step-by-step tutorials for LimboAI💡 created by DevWorm. Check 'em out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZHzMO90IwQ

💡 C++ plugin for #GodotEngine - behavior trees & state machines

#limboai #gameai

LimboAI💡 v1.1 RC is ready for trials! Brings tab navigation, blackboard variable mapping, and more! 🫴🧪

https://github.com/limbonaut/limboai/releases/tag/v1.1-rc

💡 C++ plugin for #GodotEngine - behavior trees & state machines

#gamedev #limboai #gameai

LimboAI💡 v1.1 RC is ready for trials! Brings tab navigation, blackboard variable mapping, and more! 🫴🧪

https://github.com/limbonaut/limboai/releases/tag/v1.1-rc

💡 C++ plugin for #GodotEngine - behavior trees & state machines

#gamedev #limboai #gameai

LimboAI got a tutorial! 😀 🎉
It's made by Hex Blit University on YouTube and promises to be the first part of two.

Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP0Aacdxmno

#limboai #godotengine #gamedev #indiedev #gameai

LimboAI got a tutorial! 😀 🎉
It's made by Hex Blit University on YouTube and promises to be the first part of two.

Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP0Aacdxmno

#limboai #godotengine #gamedev #indiedev #gameai

Tab navigation is coming to LimboAI💡 in the next release. Finally! 😅

💡 C++ plugin for #GodotEngine with behavior trees & state machines for #GameAI

#limboai #gamedev

Tab navigation is coming to LimboAI💡 in the next release. Finally! 😅

💡 C++ plugin for #GodotEngine with behavior trees & state machines for #GameAI

#limboai #gamedev

New 💡LimboAI v1.0.2 is released on GitHub (AssetLib pending) 🚀

https://github.com/limbonaut/limboai/releases

💡 C++ plugin for #GodotEngine with behavior trees & state machines for #GameAI

#gamedev #limboai

New 💡LimboAI v1.0.2 is released on GitHub (AssetLib pending) 🚀

https://github.com/limbonaut/limboai/releases

💡 C++ plugin for #GodotEngine with behavior trees & state machines for #GameAI

#gamedev #limboai

LimboAI💡 version 1.0.1 is released on GitHub, and coming to AssetLib soon.

https://github.com/limbonaut/limboai/releases

💡 C++ plugin for #GodotEngine with behavior trees & state machines for #GameAI

#gamedev #limboai

LimboAI💡 version 1.0.1 is released on GitHub, and coming to AssetLib soon.

https://github.com/limbonaut/limboai/releases

💡 C++ plugin for #GodotEngine with behavior trees & state machines for #GameAI

#gamedev #limboai

🎉 Good news, everyone! 🎉

LimboAI💡 version 1.0 is finally here after months of intensive coding and refining! 🧠🔧
Now with GDExtension support, a new powerful blackboard system, improved editor, awesome demo project, and much more! 🥳

https://github.com/limbonaut/limboai

💡 C++ plugin for #GodotEngine with behavior trees & state machines for #GameAI

#gamedev #limboai

🎉 Good news, everyone! 🎉

LimboAI💡 version 1.0 is finally here after months of intensive coding and refining! 🧠🔧
Now with GDExtension support, a new powerful blackboard system, improved editor, awesome demo project, and much more! 🥳

https://github.com/limbonaut/limboai

💡 C++ plugin for #GodotEngine with behavior trees & state machines for #GameAI

#gamedev #limboai