The Secrets of Skeleton and Shark AI in Sea of Thieves | AI and Games #41
In part two of my series looking at the AI of online pirate adventure game 'Sea of Thieves', I explore the mechanisms behind the basic non-player characters in the game. First I look at the skeletons, followed by the ambient pigs, snakes and chickens and close up the episode by exploring the AI behind the sharks. All with a little help from the gameplay programmers at Rare who worked on these systems.
Check out the rest of the AI of Sea of Thieves episodes:
Part 1 (Mission and World Design): https://youtu.be/SCe0_ymiiSo
Part 2 (Skeletons and Sharks): https://youtu.be/V3inbQfFQb8
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