Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Game Design
Aparna Shrivastava
University of Houston-Victoria
Meledath Damodaran Ph.D.
University of Houston-Victoria
Abstract
Game development is still in its infancy. But recently there has been a steady growth in styles in the field of computer and video games. Artificial Intelligence applications are being implemented in these games to produce the illusionary effect of intelligence augmentation, thereby giving the player a good game play experience. Game AI is used to create exciting playing strategies which keep the players focused and interested in the game. Players are provided exciting opponents, more intelligent creatures that inhabit the world of their games, exhibiting interesting behavior. The main purpose in all this is to avoid the boredom of repetition. In this paper we will survey the applications of AI in game design; describe the role of AI applications in different genres of games such as action, adventure, role playing, and strategy games; and will show how AI in gaming covers a wide area of AI technologies - path finding, neural networks, finite state machines, rule systems, human behavioral modeling, and many more.