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Game AI and Simulation Consulting
Artificial intelligence is becoming a focus in the gaming industry. Software
publishers and developers are learning what the game players have been
noticing for some time - that smart opponents are more engaging than
"pretty" opponents. However, a good programmer does not
necessarily mean a good AI designer.
More than just moving targets...
Our belief is that the next frontier in game development is the demand for more believable enemies. The industry
has reached a point where there is often a disconnect between the realistic look of an
enemy or environment and the way it behaves. We specialize in game balancing and mathematical modeling to make your game or simulation
exciting, realistic, challenging and FUN on an ongoing basis for your players!
Intrinsic Algorithm is available to help you with your game design and AI
programming on an outsourced contract basis. We provide a fresh, detailed approach to any genre of game.
We use a variety of different AI techniques to accomplish whatever task is at hand in the best combination of computing speed and realism we believe we
can achieve given the style of the game.
The serious side...
More and more, institutions ranging from government to education to the mom and pop coffee shop
have been turning to the "game world" for assistance in their quests to hire, train and educate their workers
and students. There is a real thrust towards using game technology in "serious" applications. These
may take the form of typical games or they may be more simulation based with a specific function in mind.
Either way, at the very core of them, almost by definition, is a need to model the environment accurately.
Intrinsic Algorithm excels in breaking down whatever process, environment, or
decision into the granular pieces necessary to recreate them realistically in your simulation.
For example, in their debut game/simulation, Airline Traffic Manager, Intrinsic Algorithm
modeled millions of individual passengers - each with their own origin, destination and six preferences about what
is important to them to use in selecting their flights (e.g. price, comfort, shortest trip, specific travel time). The
passengers then used these preferences to decide which of thousands of available itineraries composed of hundreds of
available flights to book on. This attention to detail presented the player with a unique challenge not seen in other
transportation simulations: passengers that actually think! The player can not find the "one size fits all" solution to keeping
the customers happy but rather must tailor his or her approach to a specific type of customer.
Additionally, Intrinsic Algorithm modelled the entire air traffic system's ebbs and flows.
Passenger demand changes throughout the year (think Thanksgiving, or Aspen in summer vs. winter), on different days of the week
(Saturday vs. Tuesday, and even at different times of the day. All of this changes how the player must schedule their flights
throughout the day, week or year. Again, this is a level of realism that invites the player to continually challenge themselves.
A solution that is acceptable for this week may no longer be appropriate for 3 months from now.
Would you like to know the best way to arrange the tables in your restaurant for optimum traffic flow?
Recreate a realistic stock market full of traders each with their own ideas and interests? Perhaps you need to populate
a world with simulated customers that react as predictably (or unpredictably!) as they do in the real world so your sales associates
can practice their approaches? Whatever the situation, Intrinsic Algorithm can help design
artificial intelligence and simulation models that fit your needs.
Intellect, Emotion and Beyond
We are also developing new algorithms that specialize in advanced behavioral modelling and
decision processes that more accurately reflect those in our world - whether it be an individual
processing his or her environment intellectually and emotionally or a business making large scale decisions
based on many layers of input. These decision models are at the very core of
Intrinsic Algorithm's focus.
Please contact us if you are interested in discovering
the intrinsic algorithms that you need to have in YOUR game!
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