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Xenonauts A.I. – Clustering

Gijs-Jan — Tue, 07 May 2013 18:03:08 +0000

One of the problems presented with Xenonauts is that the A.I. needs to construct squads of units ad-hoc. Besides the obvious examples where squads may split up or merge up to perform a task, we have the case where we do not want to define squads in the level definition. The A.I. should just be

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Promoting your App: Flurry Review

Gijs-Jan — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:20:42 +0000

After the somewhat disappointing impressions left by Admob, we turned to a different promotion service called AppCircle by the company Flurry. AppCircle differs from traditional advertising where you pay per view/click, by allowing the developer to pay per install. The AppCircle service (from a user perspective) is embedded in apps as an advertising service and

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Xenonauts A.I. – Knowledge Systems pt. 1

Gijs-Jan — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 14:01:58 +0000

A traditional approach in A.I. is to search for an optimal strategy for the agent to follow. This is done by using traditional search techniques to search through the set of all possible actions (and consequences) an agent can make. Alpha-Beta Search and Monte-Carlo Tree Search are examples of these search techniques. However, Xenonauts is

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Xenonauts A.I. – Introduction

admin — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 10:57:50 +0000

Foreword Welcome to the first in a series of posts on the A.I. implementation of Xenonauts, a game by GoldHawk Interactive! In this initial post I will outline the game itself, the requirements of the A.I. and the initial setup of my approach. For those of you not familiar with Xenonauts, I recommend a quick

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Promoting your App: Admob Review

Gijs-Jan — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 20:35:33 +0000

Ever so humble, we thought we created quite a nice game with Prototype Defense; and the user reviews seemed to agree. However, in our ignorance we assumed that creating a nice game would be enough to break through. While people are playing the game , 30k downloads so far, those numbers are nowhere near enough

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Machine Learning and Game Balancing pt. 1

Gijs-Jan — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:04:12 +0000

Well, if there is one thing every programmer hates, it’s repeating himself. And balancing a game like prototype defense is nothing more than that: constantly playing the same level over and over till you find a balance in waves that is as equally matching in toughness as in diversity. This post series will be a

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