Daniel Brewer Game AI

Building games. Documenting the journey.

Resources

Presentations

The Evolution of AI in ‘Warframe’, GDC2024

The Simplest AI Trick in the Book, GDC2024

Knowledge is Power: An Overview of Knowledge Representation in Game AI, GDC2018

Turing Tantrums: AI Devs Rant, GDC2018

Crackpot AI Devs: Unproven Game AI Techniques that Might Possibly Work, GDC2016

Crafting AI for Epic Boss Battles in ‘Warframe’, GDC 2016

Getting off the NavMesh: Navigating in Fully 3D Environments, GDC 2015

Creating Frankenstein’s Monster: Case Studies of Building a New NPC, GDC 2014

Letting Go: Collaborating with Designers to Embrace AI Behaviors, GDC 2014

AI Postmortems: Assassin’s Creed III, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, and Warframe, GDC 2013

The Simplest AI Trick in the Book, GDC 2013

AI Postmortems: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Darkness II and Skulls of the Shogun, GDC 2012

Articles

Knowledge is Power, an Overview of AI Knowledge Representation in Games

GameAIPro Online Edition 2021

Managing Pacing in Procedural Levels in Warframe,

GameAIPro Online Edition 2021

3D Flight Navigation Using Sparse Voxel Octrees

GameAIPro 3, 2017

Tactical Pathfinding on a NavMesh

GameAIPro, 2013

Benchmarks for Pathfinding in 3D Voxel Space

Daniel Brewer and Nathan R. Sturtevant, Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS), 2018