Basic AI

Us vs. It

A look at Basic Artificial Intelligence

               Our game was only tweaked a little bit from the original robot’s design, but just a little bit of change is all you need to create a whole new experience. Lady Patagonia vs. Judy Dench was a robot that new how to use her weaknesses to her advantage. She was a robot with a special ability, her lazy eye always malfunctioned and she had been made fun of her whole manufactured life because the scientists could never seem to fix it, so they just left it and assumed she would never be able to destroy the tanks like the other robots did. But using her laser eye programming with her lazy eye instead of her good eye, she was able to wipe out more tanks than with her normal eye programming.

               I did learn that AI is about using the programming given to complete certain tasks. Programming that you can’t control directly, but indirectly by using other mechanics or players. Using AI correctly gives a feeling of personality to the game; like it knows what you are doing, or about to do, and when the AI gives you a run for your money in a game it challenges you to do better creating a more exciting and fun experience that you can’t do without AI.