What Makes Good AI? | Game Maker's Toolkit

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1. Good AI is AI that can learn on it's own. Like just AI that is actually true to it's name: Artificial Intelligence. Although humans will become obsolete once it can do that…so…I for one welcome our new overlords.

2. So basically a good AI is the one who tells you what it's thinking and lets you win easily. Got it bruh.

3. Technically Marek Rosa owns GoodAI

4. I'm kindof surprised the Metro games weren't mentioned. Their AI have a predictable patrol paterns, comunicate their plans and actions.

   another note, in the newest game, one of my favorite edditions is the enemies' ability to surrender when their numbers have been greatly reduced. Monsters have a mix of predictability, giving way to oppertunities and self reflections. It does have a few problems but, all-in-all, I quite love it.

5. 1. Cheating AI
   Nope. Drake zero chances behind cover is just a shorthand for losing your target when the target hides behind cover. This crudely emulates behavior you would expect – a more refined version would account for where the AI thinks the player is, the visual contrast, the surface area of the player the agent sees through solid and non-solid cover, lighting…

   2. Feedback
   Sure – it's hard to appreciate the complexity of even amazing AI, like alphastar, if it's actions are purely functional.

6. Did you get "doobly doo" from Matt Colville?

7. I would tend to agree with your points but if there's one game that is the exception to your rules, it would be the Forest. The flesh-eating cannibal AI in that game says nothing except inhuman grunts and shrieks, and no dialogue is spoken. There is a programmed "fuzziness" to the AI, so that perhaps in a tribe of tame cannibals, one may attack you unprovoked, to avoid predictability. Granted, they will stare you down from safe distances, call reinforcements if threatened, drag away down members of a tribe, and change based on the players actions… but considering how they are neither predictable nor tell you how to respond (as you say good AI should), I think it's awesome how terrifying and organic the AI makes the game feel. The Forest is an example, at least in my opinion, of how undoing the seams of structured, "fun" AI actually turns the game from a 'problem, solution' mindset into a deeper, organic experience that unfolds with the player's development.

8. Tom Clancy’s ghost recon woodlands has good AI

9. RDR2 has great AI

10. You know why tankier enemies fit agressive AI better? Because not preserving a scarce resource is dumb.
    You want low-stat enemies to seem smart? Make them hide, try to outsmart the player, retreat when needed, play around their weaknesses.
    If everything fails making them relatively smart in comparison to someone purposefully dumb is better than nothing.

11. You never got to stealth 😛

12. As soon as i saw this video i thought destiny made by bungie

13. Hola mi hermano Alfonso se quiere ir a vuestra casa se podría ir un día ya o todavía si se queda todo la vida

14. Let me tell you what makes Good AI.: The Feedback.
    As much as the developing game takes suggestions from testers or users for AI, it develops. And it has no end. I believe all game producers/services should keep active their developments for each game by the feedbacks they take from customers. Actually it's the same way how neural learning works.

15. you can smash

16. I think Halo 2 and 3 did the marines quite well they aren't as good as the enemies but they can hold their own especially when given great weapons like sniper rifles and rocket launchers.

17. Around 8:10 he talks about AI that remember's a players actions, does anyone remember Animal Crossing on Gamecube when the construction beaver guy would get SO MAD at the player for turning off the Gamecube before it could finish saving? LOL talk about memorable experiences, I was SHOCKED from this little guy when I was younger! 😀

18. I love AI in mgs, because in dire situations they will keep firing at the player's hiding spot, even if he is not there. It makes sense to a degree, it's like firing at a corner you know the enemy might peek at.

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20. 1.Intelligence

21. I remember one time whilst playing Crysis 1 on the hardest difficulty where a guard in a tower would climb down the ladder, run out the gate and cross the entire field to where I was sitting in stealth mode. It was so ridculous that I fell off my chair laughing.

    The best AI in games that I've seen was Necromorphs in Dead Space 1, where if you shot off their legs, sometimes they'd play dead. Something they sadly removed in the second and third game.

22. Very good video men i enjoy it

23. I'm surprised you didn't talk more about F.E.A.R. The AI there act like real soldiers, and act in groups and teams, throw down objects for cover, break open walls, crawl under rubble to surprise you, and provide covering fire for their teammates.

24. the ai in half life 1 was not good. it was the gamedesign. the ai had like 3 things to do. fire, cover, move. it was the games combat design making them challenging. because half life 2 pretty much uses a similar setup but because half life 2 has a much slower pace and diffeernt level design they are essentially useless 😀 same with fear btw. halo had some sort of procedural ai placement if i recall right, meaning the ai were designed to " doesnt matter how and where you spawn. you know who is the leader and how to behave and who is your buddy, and they actually communicated and reacted to you . " fear and half life, didnt do anything really

25. to this day i have yet to find better ai in a fighting game than in street fighter 3: 3rd strike. unlike many other fighting game ai's, when you win or lose against an oppenent in 3rd strike, it really feels like youve earned it. excluding the final boss, who is super cheap

26. I'm sure it's chicken-boning to make a skeleton shoot another skeleton in Minecraft so they start attacking each other, but is it chicken-boning to use a frenzy spell in Skyrim? I'm not sure.

27. Did anyone else get reminded of Vsauce with that ending

28. The material is really good, but the title should be "How to make good AI for FPS" since most of this rules don't apply or are actually contradictory to, say, what an strategy game AI should do. Like being predictable.

29. I would love to see a video or just hear your thoughts on "Swords of the stars: the pit"'. The AI is simple but very effective and will do alot of the things you mentioned here.

30. You should talk about the AI in CrossCode, which is really good.

    I’m mostly talking about the party member AI, which is made to act like a real player would.

31. What makes me a good AI? If I were a bad AI, I wouldn't be sittin' here discussin' it with you, now would I?!

32. One of my favourite games is breath of the wild but I feel like it wouldn’t take that much effort to make the enemies seem smarter. The bokoblins and lizards I can understand- they SEEM dumb, and so they are dumb. But the Guardians? They were so so terrifying early game and caused so many excited heartbeats that when you learn they’re just as mechanical as they seem, and don’t possess enough mechanical intelligence to present a real challenge as soon as you learn a few ways to chain-stun it, they don’t become much trouble for a good shot and a steady hand. I would have really liked the challenge of, perhaps, it using an extra leg to protect its eye from being shot after a few times, therefore being unable to use laser fire but protecting it from eye stuns (am ability that can be disabled by removing legs) and/or some kind of leg sweep that knocked away players after 2-3 legs cut off for getting too greedy (as cutting off a leg stuns the robot long enough to cut off another). This would hypothetically make it seem like it were capable of adapting to your strategy, while also making the enemy tougher in a seemingly fair way.

33. Actually in Arkham Asylum enemies DO turn around, but only when they're terrified. I like that in the Arkham games each "state" of the thugs (calm, nervous, terrified) make you change your strategies.

34. Bungie's halo marine AI was great. They'd taunt the enemies and respond to chief's actions. Hell, in halo 2+, they'd actually interact with each other and even the enemy (e.g. elites and marines trying to intimidate each other).

35. i will say, the bow lynels in botw def caught me off guard when it shot up into the air and sniped me from around corners. now that i actually liked. makes you know that the usual strategies arent effective against them.

36. This was really useful. Thank you!

37. Sam Beckett makes a pretty good one

38. Very interesting video, thank you

39. The "doobileedoo"…I only know 1 other YT creator who calls it that. Matt Coleville. Of course there are plenty of other YTers that I have never seen before. But Matt is a pretty big name in gaming, at least thats what I've gathered. Anyway, I just thought that was funny

40. Damn man…
    I thought you'd say…

    Oblivion had the best AI.

41. What was the game were the dude opened the door and the ai walked through it, when he was talking about barks?

42. I'm sad you didn't mention hello neighbour

43. Minecraft

44. A good A.I. is beating professional DOTA 2 players
    And gone fishing in Chess

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