Enhancing gameplay: challenges for articifical intelligence in digital games
Darryl K. Charles · 2003
Computer power in recent years has been advancing very rapidly and as increasingly more Artificial Intelligence (AI) experts turn their attention to game design, there is a clear opportunity to think more radically about dig- ital game AI design. We suggest that not only is it time- ly for significant AI innovation but that it is essential to appreciably enhance key interactive aspects of digi- tal game design, create opportunities for novel gameplay scenarios, and to progress the medium as an art form. Issues arising from the enhanced utilization of AI in dig- ital games are discussed and the implications for game- play explored; such as affecting player emotion, moral dilemmas, player created stories, dynamic and adaptive game worlds, and character believability.