Artificial intelligence
AI is a decision-making process that adds NPCs in a game. AI is a programmable decision-making process for NPCs to govern their responses and behaviors in a game. A game character that is not controlled by a human player has no form of intelligence, and when these characters need to have a higher form of decision-making process, we apply AI to them.
AI in games has progressed tremendously over the years and NPCs can be programmed to behave in a certain way, sometimes, with some form of randomness, making it almost unpredictable so that players do not have a simple, straightforward strategy to win the level.
The decision-making process, which is also the logic of the NPCs, is stored in a data structure known as a Behavior ...
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