Assignment Due March 23

AI Presentation Assignment

Starting March 30, I would like to see a half hour presentation from each student on the topic of Game AI. My slide set on AI covers game AI topics such as State Machines, Hierarchical State Machines, Reynolds-style flocking. There is a section on standard search algorithms such as Depth-first search, breadth-first search, A* search, greedy search applied to path planning.

I would like to see a presentation on any of the following topics:

Conversation management

Mateas' ABL Language - Daniel Ha

AI for SimCity, SimAnt

AI for the Sims, SimAnt - Terry - [<http://www.sfu.ca/~tlavende/attachments/simant_thesims_ai.ppt> PowerPoint Presentation]

Alpha-Beta search

Sports strategy

Squad tactics in games such as Halo and Halo II