This is the high-level description of the Research Internship topic:

• - programming basics (Python)
• - Statecharts (background, small assignments)
• - Non-Player Characters' AI ... look into what "playability" means
• - Unity 3D both with Statecharts and with uScript (comparison)
• - small cases and two large case studies
  1. 1. Tank Wars (EA, paper by HV)
  2. 2. many NPCs (~ The Sims)

NPCs have

• - behaviour (visual uScript or Statecharts or programming)
• - appearance (Blender?)

Deliverables

• - small assignments
• - use cases
• - report

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