Comments on: Sun Tzu as a Design Feature?

By: Dave Mark

Dave Mark — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:51:05 +0000

For those that are curious, I reposted this on my Gamasutra Expert Blog. That one received a comment from The Creative Assembly folks. They make an interesting defense. Wander on over there…

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DaveMark/20100610/5337/Sun_Tzu_as_an_AI_Design_Guide.php#comments

By: Dave Mark

Dave Mark — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:24:42 +0000

I seriously disagree with this. As I wrote above, this isn’t really anything different than what we already do in game AI.

Everything about “good” or “bad” has to do with the implementation. There is nothing magical about saying “we are including Sun Tzu” just as there isn’t anything magical about saying “we are going to make every basketball player in this game modeled after Michael Jordan”. If you can’t model it well enough, just saying it doesn’t make a difference.

By: Traptin85

Traptin85 — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 18:56:29 +0000

oh god, this will make the AI unbeatable…