Gold
Mar 14th, 2008 by Ninja Dodo
A bunch of great stuff on the web lately. I found this fascinating site about game AI with some really interesting insight into the workings of NPC behaviour in games like The Sims, Thief, Façade and many others. Recently there was a great discussion about how to communicate NPC intelligence to the player. Needless to say I put in a good word for animation.
Not any less interesting was the online publication of a series of lectures and interviews conducted by Warren Spector at the University of Texas exploring the history of Looking Glass, Ion Storm and others. They were quickly taken down due to a combination of bandwith issues and something about not being ready for prime time, but myself and a few others have kept the videos up for download while we wait for the official links to come back.
More good stuff:
Shawn Kelly’s compiled tips & tricks of animation
Shawn’s a great guy. I sent him a few emails back when I was a total newbie and he was very generous with his time and advice. Above text is a collection of all the stuff he’s written for the (excellent) AM newsletter.
Saw that you linked to my video. Thanks for the support! Will Wright is an interesting guy…
Definitely. I’m not actually that big a fan of his games, but his speeches are invariably fascinating.