New Bungie podcast is here and it includes interesting stuff about Halo 3’s AI and how it has changed from Halo 2 to Halo 3. Podcast is about 1 hour long and it includes:
1:20 – Meet AI Programmer Damian Isla
6:25 – How n00b members of the press play Halo 3
7:28 – Differences between Halo 2 and Halo 3’s AI
10:12 – The “Garage” Encounter on Tsavo Highway – think tons of Brutes
11:33 – How AI works, boiled down to simple terms so that we can understand
13:52 – Conveying the intelligence of AI to the player
20:22 – The evolution of the Brute pack structure
26:03 – The dynamic AI of Halo 3’s Covenant Scarab
29:50 – How Niles Sankey sets a scene for a Scarab encounter
36:17 – Fake commercial break, without a fake commercial
37:23 – More on Ske7chZork, his self-created Junior High text adventure
38:20 – Ske7ch is a high roller in NYC
43:00 – Ske7ch and Epic’s Cliffyb are BFF
45:25 – What Luke really does after work
47:02 – Playing with fire in an earlier time in Halo 3
48:55 – Reader Mail
1:01:17 – Sign-offs and farewells
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