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God I won’t ever get how like, the game we play can just be read by lines of code. Straight up magic. But fascinating to see behind the curtain

An interesting side effect of characters being more likely to block in Sekiro is that leashing them feels rather different. The miniboss who whistles wolves into the fight is a good example. He infuriated me a couple times, but pulling him away to the edge of his 'zone of interest' means he will just mostly get stuck blocking your attacks. I think O'Rin does similar...

The fact that Monolith dipped their toes in fps games as varied in tone as FEAR and NOLF....is amazing. Such wild swings are practically unheard of in today's times. Companies today are shit scared to dip their toes into anything remotely "wild" and experimental....least they rock the stockholders boat. AAA gaming today is utterly bland and soul less.....and it doesn't look like it's going to change anytime soon. At least we can go back to these wild games that scratch that itch.

This is a phenomenal breakdown. Thank you for doing the research to get here!

Great video, would love to see you digging up the boss AI

I always enjoy your posts. They are most useful to get better at Copilot worspace or Autogen.

Would you say this video is a good place to begin understanding AI in game design? i rather enjoyed it. I'm wondering if there is another video you've released which is more generalized

My favorite boss will always be Manus, such a sick design and a really difficult fight, yet totally fair once you figure out how it works. Fromsoft dlcs never disappoint

Hi, Please forgive what will likely be a longer comment than most. With subtlety & nuance being in rare supply online, I try to be as clear as possible. But my blunt nature is often mistaken for arrogance or condescension. Which is never my intention. As that's pointless when trying to communicate with anyone. I am but a scrubby indie dev. Who's chosen to focus on systems design. I've been learning UE for 5 years this November. I'm also legally blind (albinism = 20/200 vision). In 2020 I strained my eyes to a point of functional blindness. I could still see. However keeping my eyes open for any length of time caused me physical pain. So from June 2020 to June 2021 I was basically blind. All I could do was listen to Caverns & Creature audiobooks & the UE tutorials on loop. Which also gave me a lot of time to think. The technicalities, limitations & realties of game development are wildly misunderstood online. Often leading to name brand gamers innocently spreading misleading information. I thought it was an issue of language. As in game development using common phrases. But "Optimization" means something different in game development. In comparison to the way "Optimization" is used in gaming discourse. Online the term is often reduced to "X game is poorly optimized because it can't hit 60 fps." So when my vision finally recovered. I set out to listen to gamers and take notes. What do gamers want? What type of systems do they dislike? Things like that. It didn't take long to realize how misunderstood making games is. Or that well meaning RUclipsrs are often the source of rumors like "60 fps is standard." For the record. Yes, 60 fps is great. But out of the 1300+ 9th gen games 39% run at 60. If 60 was indeed a standard, we should see something like 45-51% of games running 60. I've talked to 12 AAA devs on the matter. Every last one agrees 60 is better. Every last one also acknowledged the technicities, limitations & realities that can make it impossible for every game to hit a solid 60. My point... I absolutely love your channel. There are plenty of people analyzing games. But your combination of in depth break downs. And practical experience is well priceless. Because if gaming discourse is every to improve. We need more than the often surface level information being presented as facts. I've found Ai and Games, No Clip & Game From Scratch to be the best sources for solid information on RUclips. And just wanted to take a moment to thank you for this video. As well as the rest of your body of work. Take care and have a good one

What a wonderful breakdown. The combination of research, clarity and obvious love for the source material makes this a compelling and educational watch. Thank you for your hard work.

wether an item has been used by the player?! I knew they hit me for healing :D

Great vid, and once again congrats on the 10 years! Completely unrelated side note: not that its a game this channel woild neccess8cover, but the new Chinese Room ge appears to have an entirely scottish cast of characters and I feel like they really dropped the ball not hiring you on to voice😂

Enemies "respawning" dead and re-ragdolling feels thematically very appropriate for Dark Souls. Does Solaire (I think he'd be the only one) use one of the two combat scripts (overworld vs. summoned) when he's encountered as an enemy in between the Demon Ruins and Lost Izalith, or is there a different AI configuration for that encounter?

Prepare to die by simple AI.

I always imagined Dark Souls AI boiled down to "walk to the player and play random relevant attack animation depending on range and/or specific animation states the player is in", because that's roughly how it seems to work in the actual game. I wonder if it was something they already had in the engine for previous games or maybe they wanted to build some system a la Radiant for NPCs, because it sounds like a huge overkill for monsters.

Superb video and content as always!

Kind of amazing that fallen order looks to dark souls for its combat, has several years of better tech and a whole series of games to base it on, yet still made probably the worst combat in a game I've seen in years.

really well made Tommy

I love these videos, and Dark Souls is one of my favorite games of all time! Super excited to watch. Thanks for all the great content you put out!

I really like this 😛💣💚

I remember my first time playing Dark Souls. I was intimidated by the game's reputation for being difficult, but I decided to give it a chance and I'm glad that I did. In the video you mention Sif is your favorite boss in the game, my favorite boss would be Gwyn. Most people would say Ornstein and Smough, but I wanted to be more original with my answer. Obviously he can be beaten easily by parrying, but Gwyn is more aggressive than anything you've faced before plus the story is building up to your final battle with him and showed where From Software was going with the bosses in their later games.

Love this game and love this channel, so great to see them collide!

Lot of talking a coping to dance around how the ai is just really stupid and just throwing random bs to confuse stupid people. It a well know concept that the human brain dose not process random very well and like bad gamblers gamers prefer to throw them selves at a problem Arlen brute force it. Stupid ai for stupid players.

never played this game to completion but this video is inspiring

ah someone sees the elden ring search bonus coming

Great video. I imagine finding the correct weightings for the behaviours must have taken a lot of play testing!

Oh this is exactly what I was hoping I could get somewhere. You should see if Thor {pirate software} would shout you out. His audience is very new game dev centered

I would be very interested in your thoughts about the fact that most of the games we recognize as having impactful AI were released so long ago? AI breathes life into games, but these days people seem more interested in using AI to generate silly pictures… Will it come back around?

I discovered your channel relatively recently, but I wish I found it earlier. Your insights and breakdowns are both eye opening and inspirational in my own game development journey. I’m looking forward to more videos!

Only recently did I realise there is a 'resolve/win' ending, where you get both to confess and stop fighting. The key is simple inputs. I never thought of Grace and trip as AI, they seemed just like video game characters. With a lot of work and options put in their dialouge. And I think that's why it was so succesful, the creators didn't try to force the AI to do everything, they worked within the limits and made it work instead.

Thanks for checking out not only my 75th episode of AI and Games, but the one dedicated to our 10-year anniversary. I hope you enjoyed it, and thank you all for your continued support of AI and Games! As mentioned in the video, this episode has been on the backlog for a *very* long time. In fact, long-time viewers may recall from the pinned comment on episode #50 that I had a different idea for celebrating our 50th episode. I recall looking my research notes at the time, but it wasn't far enough along for me to put it together. Let me stress I've not been working on this episode every day since 2018. It's been a little hobby of mine, as I sit and read the odd Lua script, or dig deep into a Reddit thread, trying to piece everything together gradually. And so when it came to celebrating 10 years of the channel, this was the topic that I just *had* to cover. As mentioned, my Design Dive on Bloodborne will be released in the coming months. Plus there is a lot of work happening in decompiling Elden Ring nowadays, and I feel compelled to add it to the backlog for a future episode. Oh and one last thing. Dark Souls isn't the only episode I've been working away on for years at a time. I hope to come back with another long overdue deep dive later this year.

let them put open AI into it would be amazing if it could actually be to smart of a being to beat the game

Came for Titanfall 2, got over half a video about CoD. 🙃

I wish they left out the director AI and made it more unpredictable and immersive.

Two great men ❤️🫶

No mention of how it modifies the map itself?

How could that revolver not kill yhe alien?

When I was earning my master's degree, I heard a lot about finite state machines (FSMs), but it was all theory - like clouds in the sky: there's a lot of water, but you can't drink it. I toiled for three months after graduating until I implemented my first FSM in code in 1981. Now, there is a programming methodology based on this concept - v-agent oriented programming (VAOP) - with many examples of its implementation. It's best to start learning about VAOP with this article on Medium: "Bagels and Muffins of Programming or How Easy It Is to Convert a Bagel into a Black Hole". With VAOP, you can implement FSM in any programming language.

And now make video about how facehugger works

Jeff Orkin is a LEGEND! I'm happy to learn about him and his experience on creating F.E.A.R. This game will be forever a masterpiece in history.

A English guy how start a video with a beer mybe it would be better with tea

This reminds me of how you could have limited conversations with the bots in Quake 3 😅 It blew my teenage mind when I came across it during a move where I had no internet.

Just found your channel as Im interested in learning how Ai remasters old video footage? Then I thought how Awesome it would be to have a higher quality version of Kingpin, I loved that game and Total war Shogun!!!!

Talking about Dragon Age: Inquisition, is there any way to edit AI behavior files to study and better it? There's so much to improve, and I so would love to be able to.

You asked for stories: I found your Sea of Thieves videos first. You were one of those channels that I found multiple times and eventually got familiar enough with to subscribe to, but I still remember the discussions about unit testing in that one. It feels like CICD and TDD are completely foreign to the games industry, especially in the startup/indie scene. I really enjoyed hearing about how large studios use these tools, and even got to take a few lessons away to use as I've been learning to make my own games. Thanks for 10 years, these videos have been a great resource for someone who wants to get into games.

chess simulator pretending to be battletech game. thumbs down.

14:04 why are the synths just ignoring you?

Kpopp mentioned 🎉

it works by defying the laws of physics, making an old 1930 pickup be faster than a F1 car... what a joke. the only time the hardest difficulty worked as intended was in FH1... the sequels screwed it up... by not being competitive, but only obstacles to piss you off.