Strategies for Strategy Game AI
Ian Lane Davis · 1999
The biggest challenge in computer strategy games is the creation of a computer opponent. The hardest element of fun is good. For the Artificial Intelligence to be good, it must do much of what a human player would do: situational & map analysis, resource allocation, and strategy execution. We present here the framework and some of the strategies we have developed at Activision in the development of games such as Dark Reign: The Future Of War, Battlezone, Civilization: Call To Power, and others.