AI Reacting to Player Choices in Modern Games
Mastan There’s something magical about making a decision in a game and watching the world genuinely shift around you. Not just a cutscene change or a different ending slide but actual,…
Finite State Machines in Game AI Practical Guide
Back in 2011, I was working on my first serious game project a top-down zombie survival game. The zombies were supposed to patrol, chase players, and attack. Simple enough, right?…
Rule based AI in video games
Before machine learning became the industry buzzword, before neural networks started beating humans at chess and Go, there was something simpler. Something elegant. Something that still runs inside nearly every…
AI Behavior Trees in Gaming: How They Power Game AI
The first time I truly understood behavior trees, I was staring at a diagram that looked like an upside down family tree. Boxes connected by lines, branching downward into increasingly…