First Person Shooters

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First Person Shooters

• To Kill or Not To Kill

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Q1 Gameplay Positive

• Tutorial in game training
• Physics
• NPCs - mainly enemies, clones
• Exploration superfluous junk
• HL2 crowbar, miss it, pick it up

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Q2 Bad gameplay

• Enemies dont make use of items you can (health)
• No pursuit after discovery
• Pick up cans cant see hands
• Tunnel vision spatial cues (feet, hair)
• Shoot good guys without impact
• Assumption of controls
• Camera movement strange

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Q3 AI role

• Opportunities - if you miss something (crowbar)
• Manage difficulty user modeling on the fly
  instead of groups of testers
• Many people quit games after the first few levels
  scripting less extensive
• Bottleneck scripted, bumping up

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Q4 AI type

• Reactive pushing
• Generative pull forward
• Dialogue - beyond FSM change flow based on
  action, non-action
• Consequences for shooting someone

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Q5 Requirements

• Tools F.E.A.R. non-programmers interface
• Time and money extensively
• Testing
• Maya, 3D Max raised bar
• Particular animations mocap, which animations?
• Point when carrying a gun?
• Reuse