Technical Challenges Of AI: Co-op and Story

Natural player movements and choices outsmarting the point of the Ai.

The way Naughty Dog used rays effectively to avoid unrealistic Ai Issues.

The need to include player companions in combat to add emotional element and character.

“Rays” and their issues.

Examples of good and bad protagonist-companion Ai relationships and their effects.

Stages of Bioshock Infinite’s Liz AI and ways of getting round the players spontaneity

Ways that the AI works with its own environment (Bioshock)

Enhancing the AI but ensuring movements don’t look too eccentric and out of the ordinary.

Gameplay and Functionality

Why strategy games demand a more sophisticated AI?

Early AI and its most innovative pioneering titles

Issues with CPU usage/memory usage/specs

Evolutionary Computation and Left 4 Dead 2