Related to apophenia is the famous Heider-Simmel Demonstration. I talked about this and other things in my 2012 GDC AI Summit lecture on psychology and AI. It is yet another example of how we will construct narratives where none exist -- even with non-anthropomorphic objects like shapes. r n r ...
Behavior Trees are ONE tool in the box for game AI. Really, there isn 't one best tool. However, since this was a review of a product that had a behavior tree editor, I wrote about it. r n r nIf you would like more information on the pros and ...
Rest assured that the same prickly divide exists in the AI realms too. Academic AI often likes to think that all advancement will come through them and that they exist to one day save industry 's proverbial bacon. Industry AI people look at academics and ask, you really don 't ...
For those interested in more of this sort of mind fun, I am giving a lecture at GDC Online titled, Psychology vs. Structure: The Power of Numbers in Game Design
I think what he gains is actually protection from the torch and pitchfork brigade that is free to say anything they want about him and have done so . As much as we are annoyed by the trend of first on the internet, there is some psychological backing to it.
Some of the social contract stuff like not just wandering into people's houses has been addressed by Richard Evans when he was working on Sims 3. Things like messing with people's houses, sleeping in their beds, etc. was viewed as rude behavior and would negatively affect other Sims. They could ...
The first time I read Bartle's work, I immediately laid it over the Meyers/Briggs and/or Keirsey temperaments. My wife and I have been studying MB for years our license plates are ENTP and INFJ respectively . It goes without saying that such strongly defined archetypes that naturally occur in people ...
