Real-time challenge balance in an RTS game using rtNEAT

2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 87-94

  Olesen, Jacob Kaae ^a   Yannakakis, Georgios N ^a   Hallam, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN PLAYERS; REAL-TIME STRATEGY GAMES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 70349277308     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2008.5035625     Document Type: Conference Paper

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