The Art of the Game

APRIL 26, 2023

or: How AI failed me, but Unity came shining through. Being eager to try AI art generation, I sat down with her and had her describe as much as she could in exacting detail. So after some tinkering, I got the cabin in Unity and sat down with Ma to sculpt out the terrain, adding a few free assets, such as rocks, along the way.

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The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

For example, you can make the same goblin (well, moblin) fort play entirely differently by placing it in ways that interact with the terrain around it. Tweak the AI for one so the moment the goblins see you they all leap out of it and rush you. You need to look for ways to stretch the content inexpensively. To be fair.

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Logic Simplified

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Landscape System Tools and the Marketplace Ecosystem The Landscape system in the Unreal engine is a collection of tools used to create any kind of terrain and outdoor environments. Artificial Intelligence in Unreal Engine AI of course plays an important role in creating AI-powered entities in your projects.

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Filmustage

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Local Expertise: Leveraging the expertise of local scouts and guides is invaluable in uncovering hidden opportunities and navigating unfamiliar terrain. The movie was primarily filmed in the Philippines, which presented various logistical problems due to its remote and challenging terrain.

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The Liquid Fire

JANUARY 17, 2024

However, it will include one of most requested features that the previous lesson was missing – tiles of different terrain types, and how that can affect move cost. Tiles that are considered difficult terrain cost an additional 5 feet per tile, so the same combatant could only cross 3 such tiles in a single stride action.

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Game Dev Unchained

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

With AI technologies making rapid strides, and the information age turning students into consumers wanting immediate answers, there’s an urgent need to adapt. As we navigate this evolving terrain, perhaps the future of education is not about replacing traditional methods but integrating games as a complementary tool.

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Designer Notes

AUGUST 31, 2021

In later versions, the designers encouraged the player to use the city governors to set “priorities” that determined how the AI would place the citizens for you – a telltale sign of poor game design is the inevitable addition of an AI to play the game for you.

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 26, 2023

AI behavior. Verify the accuracy of the in-game map, including geography, terrain, and landmarks. Push the game to its limits with many AI entities, player actions, and effects. Here are some key aspects to consider in functional testing: Core mechanics. This guarantees a seamless gaming experience. Boundaries and collision.

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Deconstructor of Fun

JUNE 3, 2019

I won’t go in-depth here since many others have explored this psychological terrain in much more detail but I will use some existing taxonomies like the Gamer Motivation Model from Quantic Foundry to illustrate my point. The battles are not real-time, the player is matched up against the other player’s AI-controlled team.

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Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

During the naming review I decided it was time to consider removing the lowest tier of terrain scan processing utility, the only one dubbed a Seismic Analyzer in a world where all the other tiers were more obviously named… Terrain Scan Processor. BREAKING: Renaming Leads to New Mechanics.

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Game Design Advice

JUNE 5, 2016

I want to know if there is some specific structural quality that is shared by Chess and Go and Poker and Bridge and Magic: the Gathering, some recognizable topological feature of their state space terrain. And if there is then I want to see it, and be able to talk about it and reason about its ramifications. What depth isn’t.

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Naked simulated AI people ("peeps") arrive and flow across the terrain. This is essentially how my simple peep AIs move across the screen: when you drag your cursor (or drag your finger) you're also painting a "flow field" beneath the floor, and the peeps follow that invisible current.

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Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Here my walking mechanic borrows some sensibility from Death Stranding, where terrain can seriously slow down the player's speed, so a skilled player should micro-optimize their route a little and avoid water / hills / obstacles. You can place this game in a tradition of walkie-talkie games like Firewatch or Wheels of Aurelia.

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