POSH tools for game agent development by students and non-programmers

Proceedings of CGAMES 2006 - 9th International Conference on Computer Games: Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 126-133

  Brom, Cyril ^a   Gemrot, Jakub ^a   Bída, Michal ^a   Burkert, Ondrej ^a   Partington, Sam J ^b   Bryson, Joanna J ^b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accessible AI; AI; Dynamic Planning; Life Like Characters; Programmability

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS;

AGENT-BASED SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC PLANNING; GAME INDUSTRY; LIFE-LIKE CHARACTERS; PROGRAMMABILITY; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; RESEARCH PROGRAMMES; UNREAL TOURNAMENT;

COMPUTER GAMES;

EID: 84927635802     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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