Transcript Michael Mateas

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Games
Michael Mateas
EXPRESSIVE INTELLIGENCE STUDIO
UC Santa Cruz
School of Engineering
[email protected]
12 October 2007
Game AI : The future of games
 As a new medium games are still in their infancy,
focused predominantly on physical action
 Artificial Intelligence enables games that…
 Comment on the full range of human experience through
playable simulations of people and social situations
 Deeply respond to interaction
 Radically customize themselves to individual players
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Return of the King
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American Beauty
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Need story and character AI
Plot structure
Tension/Complexity
Climax
Crisis
Falling action
Rising action
Exposition
Inciting
incident
Time
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Denouement
Characters
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Personality
Emotion
Self motivation
Change
Social relationships
Consistency
Illusion of life
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Façade
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Façade architecture
Drama Manager
(sequences beats)
Bag of beats
History
Recognizers
beat
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Previous action
Current
story
values
Selected beat
beat
beat
beat
time
beat
Activity not part of a beat
Desired value
arc(s)
ABL agents
surface text
Trip
Player
Grace
Story World
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discourse acts
discourse acts
reactions
Natural Language Processing
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Applications
 New art and entertainment form
 Interpersonal skills training
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Bedside manner (medical)
Management people skills
Personal relationships
Peacekeeping (“soft” military operations)
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Some projects in EIS
 ABL/Wargus: real-time strategy game
 Drama Management: automated story management
for games
 Collapsed Structure Training Game
 Game Generation: automatic generation of games
 AR-Façade: Augmented-reality version of Façade
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Collapsed Structure Rescue
Working with NASA Ames (DART)
AI research: dynamically generating new training scenarios
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Drama management
 Policy for “story piece” selection
 An alternative to explicitly coded links
Actual sequence
Selection policy
Story library
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Expressive AI: AI as a medium
Façade
Terminal Time
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Office Plant #1
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