Creating human-like autonomous players in real-time first person shooter computer games

• Main Authors: WANG, Di, SUBAGDJA, Budhitama, TAN, Ah-hwee, NG, Gee-Wah
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2009
• Subjects: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/6169; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/7172/viewcontent/261_3920_1_PB.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper illustrates how we create a software agent by employing FALCON, a self-organizing neural network that performs reinforcement learning, to play a well-known first person shooter computer game known as Unreal Tournament 2004. Through interacting with the game environment and its opponents,...