Learning Machine Learning for Game Development
I'm in this research area, it's facinating, but also (like many things in AI) easy to get wrong.The trickiest bit is deciding exactly what you want your AI to optimise for -- If you want a game where "anyone can win", you end up with coin toss. If you want a game where "skill is everything", you can accidentally end up with "who can click fastest".On a project I recently worked on (and I'm writing up), we ended up on our 6th or 7th "optimisation function" before we found something where the "AI optimal" seemed actually enjoyable to play.Of course, if you already have a fairly fixed game, it can be easier to optimise constants, as you already know your target -- but people have also been doing that for a long time previously.