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Dave Mark's Blog
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Dave Mark is the president and lead designer of Intrinsic Algorithm LLC, an independent game development studio and AI consulting company in Omaha, Nebraska. He has been programming since 1984 when he was in high school where, much to the dismay of his teacher, he wrote his first text adventure on the school’s DEC PDP-1144.
After a brief detour in the music business as a composer/arranger, keyboard player, and recording engineer during the early 1990s, Dave re-entered the technology arena in 1995. In 2002, he came to the startling realization that the corporate IT consulting and development world is a little short on creativity and fun. As a result, Dave left to start Intrinsic Algorithm LLC with his wife, Laurie.
He is the author of " Behavioral Mathematics for Game AI" and is a contributor to the AI Game Programming Wisdom series of books, a
semi-regular columnist at AIGameDev, a founding member of the AI Game Programmers Guild, and is a co-organizer and co-host of the AI Summit at GDC.
Dave continues to attend the University of Life. He does not plan to graduate anytime soon.
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Expert Blogs
We Can't Think of Everything!  |
| Posted by Dave Mark on Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:21:00 EST in
Game Design,
Programming,
Console/PC
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| An examination of why what people THINK is bad game AI might not really be the fault of the AI programmer. (Yes, it is about Skyrim.) |
| Read More... | 6 Comments |
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What would YOU like to see in the GDC AI Summit? |
| Posted by Dave Mark on Thu, 03 Nov 2011 02:07:00 EDT in
Game Design,
Programming
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| What sorts of things you would like to hear about at the GDC AI Summit? Tell the AI Game Programmers Guild! |
| Read More... | 1 Comments |
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Flanking and Cover and Flee! Oh my! |
| Posted by Dave Mark on Mon, 13 Jun 2011 08:07:00 EDT in
Game Design
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| Why are we in the game business so afraid of good AI? Perhaps the AI in Ghost Recon: Future Soldier might help move us past our inhibitions. |
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Pondering the Purpose of E3 |
| Posted by Dave Mark on Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:13:00 EDT in
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| Wherein I take some time the morning before E3 to ponder exactly what I expect to get out of what it has to offer me. |
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Euphoria over Bad AI in Backbreaker? |
| Posted by Dave Mark on Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:19:00 EDT in
Game Design,
Programming
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| The football game, "Backbreaker" uses the Euphoria physics engine for its player motion. However, as one reviewer notes, if the player and coach AI is bad enough that the game is unplayable, it doesn't matter how good the physics look. I discuss. |
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Sun Tzu as an AI Design Guide? |
| Posted by Dave Mark on Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:17:00 EDT in
Game Design,
Programming
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| Total War creator, The Creative Assembly, has announced the development of "Shogun 2" claiming that it features an AI system inspired by Sun Tzu's "The Art of War". While this is a nice idea, in large part, AI developers already use Sun Tzu's advice. |
| Read More... | 9 Comments |
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Dave Mark's Comments
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Comment In: We Can't Think of Everything! [Blog - 11/11/2011 - 10:21]
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Some of the social contract ... 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 ... |
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Comment In: Artificial Intelligence Pioneer John McCarthy Dies [News - 10/24/2011 - 06:33]
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Seems kind of sad that ... Seems kind of sad that more people know about random 1-hit wonder pop stars from the 80s than know about someone like this. |
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Comment In: Mojang Wins Injunction In Bethesda Scrolls Case, Appeal 'Within Three Weeks' [News - 10/18/2011 - 05:04]
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I still think that going ... I still think that going for Scroll Edge would have been precious. |
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Comment In: Personality And Play Styles: A Unified Model [Feature - 09/01/2011 - 05:05]
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The first time I read ... 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 ... |
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Comment In: Opinion: An AI Curriculum [News - 07/18/2011 - 04:30]
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For 2 additional commentaries on ... For 2 additional commentaries on exactly this subject, see the FREE AI Rants video from the most recent GDC AI Summit. Specifically, Brian Schwab posits There Can Only Be Fun and I follow with AI Devs, Get Your Head Outta Your Code Both are amusing, insightful, and passionate. http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014586/Turing-Tantrums-AI-Developers-Rant While ... |
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Comment In: Flanking and Cover and Flee! Oh my! [Blog - 06/13/2011 - 08:07]
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Don't get me started on ... Don't get me started on reaction times... that's another post entirely |
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