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<\/p>\nThis article is part of the, now deprecated, Demox development log. Demox was cancelled and is no longer in active development so this article can be somewhat out of context- however, I felt some information here could still be of use to someone, therefore it’ll remain for anyone to read.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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So to start things off, let’s go through my primary goals for the AI in Demox<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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– A game world that feel more alive than LBKR <\/a><\/strong><\/em>did, this includes AI that show more presence and that interact with the player, game world and eachother alot more than what the AI in LBKR <\/span><\/em><\/strong>did. ( AI in LBKR were idiots really, let’s be honest \ud83d\ude09<\/em> <\/span>)
– Possability for the player to hire friendly AI to accompany him into battle.
– Maintain LBKR’s<\/span> <\/em><\/strong>style of “DPM<\/span><\/strong>” intelligence to allow making some AI more alert and some more sluggish-acting, more on this subject later!
– Simple setup, with a way of dynamically adding\/removing decision behaviour<\/span> types<\/em> to different enemies.
– Situational Awareness<\/span><\/em> in combat aswell as AI cooperation<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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.DPM<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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AI Status Check<\/strong>
– Are there any active damage effects?
– Have the AI depleted all resources such as weapons or energy?
– How much health has been lost and how intact is the AI’s armor?
– What is the distance between the AI and it’s current target? <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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DPM<\/span><\/strong>, or “Decisions per Minute<\/em>” is a simple AI behaviour system I put together for <\/em>Loot Burn Kill Repeat<\/strong><\/a>, which I have continued to build upon for Demox <\/em><\/strong>aswell! The name comes from a property field I’ve assigned to the AI character code that determine how many times per minute the AI avatar will calculate a new decision, I guess a less confusing name for it would be “Intelligence”… but… err, yeah!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worth to note is that despite the AI calculating a decision at regular intervals, the process won’t always end with the AI actually deciding or changing any current actions, since the decision is controlled by multiple aspects concerning the current situation of the AI. I’ve improved the AI’s situational awareness and the DPM <\/span><\/strong>system extensively for Demox<\/em><\/strong>, compared to what I had in LBKR<\/a><\/strong>. Among other things, the AI will check it’s own status, <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

A check will also be done for the AI’s party members, to determine how many are wounded, escaped combat, have been killed and how scattered the party members are on the battlefield. These are the primary things that are impacting the decision, furthermore, each decision behaviour<\/span><\/em> have tailor-made awareness checks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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