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My fourth video on the AI of Total War looks specifically at the diplomacy subsystem used in Total War Attila as well as some improvements to the campaign AI from Total War Rome II.

This video is also written up over on Gamasutra:

https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/TommyThompson/20180226/314400/Make_Peace_Not_War__The_AI_of_Total_War_Part_4.php

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Part 3 of my Total War series looks at how AI systems were completely rebuilt for the franchise in the controversial Total War: Rome II.

You can also read this piece over on Gamasutra:

https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/TommyThompson/20180212/314399/Revolutionary_Warfare__The_AI_of_Total_War_Part_3.php

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Part 2 of my series on Total War where I look at how the AI works Rome, Medieval and Empire!

You can also read about it over on Gamasutra:

https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/TommyThompson/20180205/314171/Evolution_of_War__The_AI_of_Total_War_Part_2.php

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Part 1 of a series on the AI behind Creative Assemblies Total War franchise.  Looking at the AI behind the initial entries in the series: Shogun and Medieval.

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We take a look at the director AI behind the Far Cry series.

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Our No Man's Sky playthrough returns with a discussion on how the PCG system could be causing game design problems.

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Our latest video looks at the design of the AI system implemented in Creative Assembly’s Alien: Isolation.  We learn how it moves around the world, how it hunts the player and how the creature learns throughout the main campaign experience.

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For our very first post on Tumblr, figured we should start with our most popular YouTube video: discussing the Mario AI competition.

http://aiandgames.com/the-mario-ai-competition/