{"id":1318,"date":"2017-07-20T21:21:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T04:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2018-01-17T04:53:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T11:53:53","slug":"playing-to-lose-ai-and-civilization-gdc-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/playing-to-lose-ai-and-civilization-gdc-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing to Lose: AI and Civilization (GDC 2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I gave a talk at GDC 2008 on developing the AI for the <em>Civilization<\/em> series. I highlighted the difference between &#8220;good&#8221; AI and &#8220;fun&#8221; AI and how writing AI for <em>Civ<\/em> is tricky because it fits somewhere between those two extremes. Unfortunately, the talk was not filmed, and because I always wanted to get it online,\u00a0I went ahead and reconstructed it from the original audio and slides. If you give it a watch, let me know what you think!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e7AWHT7j3V4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gave a talk at GDC 2008 on developing the AI for the Civilization series. I highlighted the difference between &#8220;good&#8221; AI and &#8220;fun&#8221; AI and how writing AI for Civ is tricky because it fits somewhere between those two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/playing-to-lose-ai-and-civilization-gdc-2008\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/CivAI.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3EGlq-lg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}