Tommy Thompson's Blog
Dr. Tommy Thompson is the director of AI and Games Ltd.: a company dedicated to providing consultancy and bespoke software solutions for artificial intelligence technologies in the video games industry. All in an effort to help studios to refine the designs, tools, and architecture required to elevate AI within their games. The company is largely known for its crowdfunded YouTube series of the same name that explores research and applications of artificial intelligence in video games.
As of 2021, Tommy is an advisor to the GDC AI Summit in an effort to support developers as they showcase their hard work and contributions to the game development community.
Tommy is a part-time lecturer in computer science and researcher in artificial intelligence applications in video games and has authored over 30 academic publications in areas such as artificial general intelligence, machine learning for non-player characters and procedural content generation. Tommy has been an active participant in the academic community for over 15 years as a reviewer and chair for numerous conferences and workshops.
Tommy also develops his own game projects at indie company Table Flip Games,
You can follow Tommy and the AI and Games series on Twitter.
Expert Blogs
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Ensuring players can follow the action is critical to turn-based strategy, and in Gears Tactics, AI helps make that happen.
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on Thu, 08 Apr 2021 10:59:00 EDT
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Exploring the inner workings and 10-year journey behind the development of Ultima Ratio Regum: a roguelike that procedurally generates cultural human cultures.
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on Thu, 28 Jan 2021 11:14:00 EST
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2017's dungeon crawler Unexplored pioneered a new approach to procedural dungeon generation, by designing cycles of gameplay that are translated into level designs.
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on Wed, 09 Dec 2020 10:11:00 EST
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In an exclusive interview with developers at Ubisoft Toronto, we discuss the challenges of making the Legion's 'Play as Anyone' simulation come to life.
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on Wed, 04 Nov 2020 08:53:00 EST
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How a fuzzy logic system combined with thousands of rules powers the civilian NPCs in Watch Dogs.
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on Fri, 11 Sep 2020 11:26:00 EDT
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As the game launches on PC, we sit down with developers Awe Interactive find out how AI design and level generation are built to support this rhythm-focussed first-person shooter.
Tommy Thompson's Comments
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[Blog - 01/30/2019 - 04:59]
Yeah... I just correct that. ...
Yeah... I just correct that. Didn 't spot it until after I published it, but I appear to have invented a new machine type. Whoops
