The Forza series is home to one of the most impressive AI implementations in modern gaming.  Drivatars are AI-controlled racers designed to drive like real people, learning from their behaviour and reproducing it in other peoples games.  Allowing players all over the world to face off against their friends and other players across the Xbox

The Locust Horde are a formidable force: a near-endless army of subterranean monsters set on annihilating all human life on the planet of Sera. They’re vicious, ruthless, and seemingly unstoppable. In Gears Tactics, players take charge of the remnants of Alpha Squad, as Gabriel, Sid, and Mykala fight for their lives and rescue as many

How do you design culture? Society has taken many forms throughout millennia of human existence. Cultural norms that are established come from iteration, consensus and communication. It defines our traditions, our customs and values. Culture can influence our forms of technologies, our modes of communication, our artistic expression. Our cultures are defined by our religious

Procedural generation of levels has a long history in video game development: crafting worlds that feel novel and unique with each playthrough.  But it’s an idea that has no defined method of how to pull it off.  Of course it makes sense that a world generated for Dwarf Fortress does not have the same design