Academia AI in Game Developing
Our goal is to make better games. We (AI Lab Zurich, Switzerland) have recently established a group (all people with stupendous gaming background :)) within our lab which is currently studying communication possibilities to the commercial game developing industry, concerning possible partnerships and networking with companies. We have some researchers who are working on virtual reality modelling in the field of artificial life (Artificial Ontogeny, GA) and who are more than willing to share their know-how. We believe that applied A.I. (the way WE look at it) could be a highly powerful (and refreshing) component to game developing. We also have some concrete and realistic ideas on how our knowledge could be implemented in this field (specially AI-Life: morphogenetic design / evolutionary algorithms):
We have developed a tool, "MorphEngine", that allows student with little prior knowledge to evolve fantastic artificial creatures. This has entertainment value, but can also be used to communicate highly difficult academic materials about evolution.
One of the major advantages of “morphogenetic design” is that we can minimize the designer biases in the design process. As long as one has to parameterize the final structure, one has to have a pretty good idea about this structure, thus, the designer biases tend to be very strong. Minimizing these biases promises novel solutions.
Nevertheless, in order to achieve some kind of actual link to the game developping community, we are in need of help. Since we're a relatively "young" group at our lab, we are looking for people in the community who are willing to point us in the right direction, to support our actions or to work with us in some sort way. If you, by any chance, are interested in what we do and if you see any possibility of creating an exchange of thoughts in this matter, or even if you know who specifically might be interested in our request, I'd be more than happy to give you concrete information on our research field. Feel free to visit our website at: www.ifi.unizh.ch/ailab.
Greetings to the AI community,
R.S.
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