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<H1>[MUD-Dev] Re: 1997 CGDC AI Roundtable Moderator's Report</H1>
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<LI><em>Subject</em>: [MUD-Dev] Re: 1997 CGDC AI Roundtable Moderator's Report </LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: J C Lawrence <<A HREF="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 11:39:11 -0700</LI>
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On Wed, 01 Jul 1998 14:32:58 -0700
J C Lawrence<claw#under,engr.sgi.com> wrote:
> URL:<A HREF="http://www.cris.com/%7eswoodcoc/cgdc97notes.html">http://www.cris.com/%7eswoodcoc/cgdc97notes.html</A>
> 1997 CGDC AI Roundtable Moderator's Report
> by Steven Woodcock
..deletia...
> During the development of the game one programmer
> came back from lunch to discover over 30 Creatures running around in
> the game where there had been only one. Wondering how this could
> happen, he then saw a Creature come into the "hatchery" with an egg
> (which are randomly distributed about the environment) and place it
> into the incubator until it hatched. This Creature had learned by
> accident that eggs dropped in the incubator made more Creatures, and
> Creatures like having friends.
> After the game was shipped developers witnessed
> what could only be described as a suicide. Two Creatures that were
> best friends often wandered around the environment together, and
> eventually one of them "died" of old age (they have a life-span of
> roughly 50 hours). Its friend refused to leave the body, despite
> increasing biological needs for sleep and food, until it too died of
> starvation.
> By design, the Creatures' brain consists of roughly
> nine "lobes", with each lobe dedicated to a specific aspect of the
> Creatures' personality (emotions, learning, etc.). A player of the
> game sent the developers a Creature which had evolved two additional
> lobes. Examination and testing showed that this "mutant" was
> slightly better than a "normal" Creature-it learned faster and
> seemed somewhat more intelligent.
Now kick back a little and imagine putting these sort of supports
underneath your NPC/mobiles for everything from combat systems and
effectiveness to NPC societies, population controls, herd/flocking
behaviours, and NPC economic and political systems (yes! Your NPC's
can have their own internally evolved politics!).
I'm scared.
...deletia...
> RPGs - One topic which garnered somewhat more interest in the
> last session than in others was the use of good AI for role playing
> games. In light of the upcoming large online RPGs, some developers
> wondered how to build believable non-player characters (NPCs) which
> could interact with the players intelligently. A variety of
> approaches were discussed, most being mixtures of rules-based and
> A-life. Ultima Online was brought up as an interesting example of a
> quasi A-life approach backed up by careful overview of Game
> Moderators to prevent things from getting too wildly out of hand.
Oops.
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<LI><STRONG>[MUD-Dev] Re: You think users won't number crunch and statistise your MUD?</STRONG>, <EM>(continued)</EM>
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00041" HREF="msg00041.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: You think users won't number crunch and statistise your MUD?</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Fri 03 Jul 1998, 01:54 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00018" HREF="msg00018.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: roleplaying farmers?</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Wed 01 Jul 1998, 21:45 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00017" HREF="msg00017.html">[MUD-Dev] Summary: Recognizing Strategic Dispositions</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Wed 01 Jul 1998, 21:38 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00016" HREF="msg00016.html">[MUD-Dev] 1997 CGDC AI Roundtable Moderator's Report</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Wed 01 Jul 1998, 21:34 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00090" HREF="msg00090.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: 1997 CGDC AI Roundtable Moderator's Report</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Wed 08 Jul 1998, 18:39 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00015" HREF="msg00015.html">[MUD-Dev] Summary: "Influence Mapping"</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Wed 01 Jul 1998, 21:25 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00014" HREF="msg00014.html">[MUD-Dev] Elven Language List</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Wed 01 Jul 1998, 21:25 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00013" HREF="msg00013.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Databases: was Re: skill system</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Wed 01 Jul 1998, 20:47 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00076" HREF="msg00076.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Databases: was Re: skill system</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Wed 08 Jul 1998, 06:29 GMT
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