Notes

To sum up!

Most importantly, we were trying to create the Illusion of Intelligence, not actual intelligence

and that combat behavior is where Design and the Code overlap

• Our Design Goals were

  to make the AI Intelligible by

  giving them similar capabilities to the Player

  and making their thought processes transparent

  to make them Interactive by

  letting the Player impress them, fool them and thwart them

  and to make them unpredictable by

  using the Player as the focus of the battle

  and giving the Actors a gradient of choices

Our designers focused on the flow of battle while our coders focused on the Actor's action and responses

We used the Difficulty level to

let the AI live long enough to appear smart and

discourage tactics that made the AI appear dumb

We manipulated the battle lines in an encounter

by using strategic spaces to emphasize the AI's strong points

and using Attacking and Defending states to make battles dynamic

and finally from our Playtests we learned that

Subtlety doesn't work

and there are specific attributes of our AI that we could tune to make it appear smarter