Intelligent agents in computer games
Michael van Lent, John E. Laird, Josh Buckman, Joe Hartford, Steve Houchard, Kurt Steinkraus, Russ Tedrake · 1999
As computer games become more complex and consumers demand more sophisticated computer controlled opponents, game developers are required to place a greater emphasis on the artificial intelligence aspects of their games. Our experience developing intelligent air combat agents for DARPA (Laird and Jones 1998, Jones at al. 1999) has suggested a number of areas of AI research that are applicable to computer games. Research in areas such as intelligent agent architectures, knowledge representation, goal-directed behavior and knowledge reusability are all directly relevant to improving the intelligent agents in computer games. The Soar/Games project (van Lent and Laird 1999) at the University of