The next BattleTech Livestream Q&A is quickly approaching (August 9th) and will be streamed on NGNGTVs channel on Twitch at 12:00p Pacific Time.
UPDATE:
Because of a scheduling conflict, the AI devs will not be able to join the Livestream. Instead, Mitch will be interviewing Jordan Wiseman.
This month the A.I. developers will be on the livestream to talk about developing the A.I. for the game. Below is a bit of info from HBS_Dagger on the livestream and a little bit of backstory on the developers...
"Last month, we asked which topic you'd like to hear about and you clearly wanted to hear more about AI! So we've enlisted (okay, drafted) our AI team, Dave & Kevin, to join Mitch for this month's Q&A.
As always, post your questions about Dave and Kevin, AI in general, or BATTLETECH AI specifically in this thread.
Here's a little bit about Dave and Kevin:
Dave LeCompte joined HBS to work on Battletech, but has worked on Tornado Outbreak, Online Chess Kingdoms, Lord of the Rings: Tactics, Samurai Jack: The Shadow of Aku, The Matrix Online, Total Annihilation Kingdoms: Darien Crusades, Total Annihilation: Galactic Wars, Lords of Magic, and Civil War Generals 2: Grant, Lee, Sherman. As our AI Engineer, Dave built the behavior tree and influence map systems for the AI, as well as non-AI systems, including the fog of war and timed effects systems.
Kevin Maloney has been with HBS as a Level Designer since production of Shadowrun Returns began and continued with each and every Shadowrun release. As time went on, he added more and more AI duties to his level design responsibilities including the design of the AI overhaul in Shadowrun: Dragonfall - Director's Cut. He's now the AI Designer for Battletech and spends his days peering though AI logs and building up the AI brick by brick alongside the talented Dave LeCompte." - HBS_Dagger
Edited by MeiSooHaityu, 08 August 2017 - 03:00 AM.
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