Abstrakt
Despite recent progress, behavior of non-player characters (NPCs) in contemporary games is still kept rather simple. This is an opportunity for the academia to develop novel techniques and tools that would allow for easier creation of complex behaviors that are resilient to the dynamicity implied by the presence of the player.
There already exist languages within multiagent community that are thought to be suitable for NPC behaviors creation, but they are usually tested in simplistic environments and our experience indicates that applying them to complex 3D worlds introduces significant obstacles. This is part of the reason why simple reactive techniques are prevalent in game industry practice.
Moreover there is no publicly available research-friendly 3D virtual world with sufficient complexity that would allow developers to evaluate their languages and tools in a more realistic setting and improve them toward practical applicability. In this demo we present EmohawkVille: an open-source firstperson 3D virtual world that is a candidate for such an environment.