Towards Using First-Person Shooter Computer Games as an Artificial Intelligence Testbed

In traditional communities, some actions are widely regarded as bad and unethical. But in online “communities,” the virtual analog of those actions may not be regarded with the same clarity. Since “virtual” behaviors are distinct from ordinary acts, they require further analysis to determine whether they are right or wrong. In this chapter we consider an incident on the Internet that illustrates this confusion. The incident centered on a virtual act of sexual violence. This “rape in cyberspace,” reported by Julian Dibbell in 1993, has generated questions about the significance of behaviors in virtual reality environments. We use the case to explore the moral nature of actions in virtual environments, emphasizing the themes of harm and responsibility. We then offer some tentative lessons to be learned and, finally, apply the lessons to virtual sex and to first-person shooter computer games.

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Modelling a Human-Like Bot in a First Person Shooter Game

International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics ◽

10.4018/ijcicg.2015010102 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 21-37 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Antonio Miguel Mora ◽

Francisco Aisa ◽

Pablo García-Sánchez ◽

Pedro Ángel Castillo ◽

Juan Julián Merelo

Keyword(s):

Artificial Intelligence ◽

Autonomous Agents ◽

First Person ◽

Human Expert ◽

Medium Level ◽

First Person Shooter ◽

Human Player

Autonomous agents in videogames, usually called bots, have tried to behave as human players from their emergence more than 20 years ago. They normally try to model a part of a human expert player's knowledge with respect to the game, trying to become a competitive opponent or a good partner for other players. This paper presents a deep description of the design of a bot for playing 1 vs. 1 Death Match mode in the first person shooter Unreal Tournament™ 2004 (UT2K4). This bot uses a state-based Artificial Intelligence model which emulates a big part of the behavior/knowledge (actions and tricks) of an expert human player in this mode. This player has participated in international UT2K4 championships. The behavioral engine considers primary and secondary actions, and uses a memory approach. It is based in an auxiliary database for learning about the fighting arena, so it stores weapons and items locations once the bot has discovered them, as a human player would do. This so-called Expert Bot has yielded excellent results, beating the game default bots even in the hardest difficulty, and being a very hard opponent for medium-level human players.

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Does Lara Croft Wear Fake Polygons? Gender and Gender-Role Subversion in Computer Adventure Games

Leonardo ◽

10.1162/002409401750286976 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 34 (3) ◽

pp. 221-226 ◽

Cited By ~ 28

Author(s):

Anne-Marie Schleiner

Keyword(s):

Gender Role ◽

Subject Matter ◽

Computer Games ◽

First Person ◽

Adventure Games ◽

Gaming Culture ◽

On Line ◽

The Subject ◽

And Gender ◽

First Person Shooter

The subject matter of this article emerged in part out of research for the author's thesis project and first game patch, Madame Polly, a “first-person shooter gender hack.” Since the time it was written, there has been an upsurge of interest and research in computer games among artists and media theoreticians. Considerable shifts in gaming culture at large have taken place, most notably a shift toward on-line games, as well as an increase in the number of female players. The multidirectional information space of the network offers increasing possibilities for interventions and gender reconfigurations such as those discussed at the end of the article.

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Penilaian Atribut Usabilitas oleh Gamer First Person Shooter (FPS) Indonesia

Jurnal Rekayasa Sistem Industri ◽

10.26593/jrsi.v5i2.2217.96-105 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 96

Author(s):

Paulina K. Ariningsih ◽

Yun P. Mulyani ◽

Kristianto A. Nugroho ◽

Chandra S. Rahardjo

Keyword(s):

User Interface ◽

Computer Games ◽

Economic Benefits ◽

Point Of View ◽

Future Research ◽

First Person ◽

Time Duration ◽

Novice Users ◽

Game Developers ◽

First Person Shooter

Computer games, especially First Person Shooter (FPS) have become one of the fastest growing and most economically sucessful software in Indonesia. Given the potential economic benefits of the FPS games, it is important to design its user interface as usable as possible to win the market. In accordance, it is crucial to find out what user interface factors should be considered in designing an FPS game. These factors can be used as a designing guide for game developers in Indonesia. The purpose of this paper is to discover the main user interface factors that should be considered in designing an FPS game especially from usability point of view and to suggest improvement of the user interface in current FPS game.Fourty (40) usabilty attributes from literature review are qualitatively grouped into 5 factors. Those factors are: Basic FPS Feature (BFF), Basic Game Feature (BGF), Display & Sounds (D&S), Help & Hints (H&H), and Enjoyment (E). Usability testing on the factors is conducted in three different groups of players: Novice, Experienced, and Expert. Mann-Withney Test are conducted to understand performance difference for each group. The result shows that BGF and H&H are not significantly difference for all groups. While for BFF, the novice group tend to have different preference rather than other groups since there is not enough time duration given on novice users accessing the FPS feature. For D&S, expert tend to have different preference rather than other groups. Some future research potentials are also proposed in this paper.

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Game 3D "Zombie Attack" dengan Menerapkan AI Pada NPC

KREA-TIF ◽

10.32832/kreatif.v7i1.2044 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 20

Author(s):

Fitrah Satrya Fajar Kusumah ◽

Hersanto Fajri ◽

Muhammad Al Barake

Keyword(s):

Artificial Intelligence ◽

First Person ◽

Modelling Language ◽

Unified Modelling Language ◽

First Person Shooter

Game merupakan salah satu media hiburan yang banyak diminati oleh masyarakat. Pengembangan genre Game yang begitu pesat, menyebabkan Game semakin menarik banyak masyarakat. Setiap jenis Game memiliki keunggulan dan kekurangan masing-masing. Kecerdasan buatan diperlukan untuk menentukan prilaku apa saja yang dilakukan pada kondisi-kondisi tertentu. Game Zombie Attack yang dibangun ini merupakan jenis Game yaitu First Person Shooter, dengan melibatkan berbagai macam pola kecerdasan buatan yang ditanamkan pada non-player character (NPC). Metode pengembangannya adalah dengan pendekatan berorientasi objek dimulai dengan mengembangkan modal-modal dan environtment yang ada Penggambaran skema objeknya menggunakan Unified Modelling Language (UML) sebagai pemodelan aplikasi. Berdasarkan hasil pengujian yang dilakukan dapat disimpulkan bahwa ,aplikasi permainan Zombie Attack telah berhasil mengimplementasikan Artificial intelligence Pada NPC. dan dapat menjadi sarana hiburan.

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Comparing the Effects of Network Latency versus Local Latency on Competitive First Person Shooter Game Players

10.31219/osf.io/bhxcy ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Shengmei Liu ◽

Atsuo Kuwahara ◽

James Scovell ◽

Jamie Sherman ◽

Mark Claypool

Keyword(s):

Computer Games ◽

Quality Of Experience ◽

Local System ◽

User Studies ◽

First Person ◽

Performance Accuracy ◽

Network Latency ◽

Player Performance ◽

First Person Shooter

Competitive gamers, and especially esports gamers, want lower latency to improve their chances of winning. There are two main sources of latency in competitive computer games: local system latency and network latency. While researchers have studied the effects of both, a direct comparison has not been done, especially for competitive gamers and low-end latencies. This paper assesses the effects of local latency and network latency on experienced {\em Counter-strike: Global Offensive} players comparing data from two user studies. Analysis of the results shows that local latency has about a 2x higher impact on player performance (accuracy and score) and Quality of Experience (QoE) than does the same amount of network latency.

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Player relationships as mediated through sound in immersive multi-player computer games

Comunicar ◽

10.3916/c34-2010-02-07 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 17 (34) ◽

pp. 73-81 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mark Grimshaw

Keyword(s):

Computer Games ◽

Half Life ◽

Computer Game ◽

First Person ◽

Acoustic Ecology ◽

Acoustic Environment ◽

Sound Theory ◽

Player Game ◽

First Person Shooter ◽

The Relationship

This essay examines the relationship between player and diegetic sound FX in immersive computer game environments and how this relationship leads, in large part, to the contextualization of the player within the virtual world of the game. This contextualization presupposes a primarily sonically-based perception of objects and events in the world and, in a multi-player game, this ultimately leads to communication between players through the medium of diegetic sound. The players’ engagement with, and immersion in, the game’s acoustic environment is the result of a relationship with sound that is technologically mediated. The game engine, for example, produces a range of environmental or ambient sounds and almost every player action has a corresponding sound. A variety of relevant theories and disciplines are assessed for the methodological basis of the points raised, such as film sound theory and sonification, and, throughout, the First-Person Shooter sub-genre is used as an exemplar. Such games include the «Doom» and «Quake» series, the «Half-Life» series and derivatives and later games such as «Left 4 Dead». The combination of the acoustic environment, the interactive placement of the player – as embodied by his virtual, prosthetic arms – in the environment and the sonic relationships between players produces the acoustic ecology. An exposition of this multi-player communication and the resultant acoustic ecology and player immersion, is the main objective of the essay. Este ensayo examina la relación entre el jugador y los efectos de sonido diegéticos en entornos de juego inmersivos para ordenadores, y a su vez, la manera en la que esta relación, en gran parte, pone en contexto al jugador dentro del mundo virtual del juego. Esta contextualización presupone una percepción basada principalmente en los sonidos de los objetos y los acontecimientos del mundo, lo que en el entorno del juego multijugador conduce finalmente a la comunicación entre los jugadores por medio del sonido diegético. El compromiso de los jugadores con –y la inmersión en– el ambiente acústico del juego es el resultado de una relación con el sonido mediada tecnológicamente. El motor del juego, por ejemplo, produce una gama de sonidos del entorno o del medio ambiente y casi todas las acciones del jugador tienen un sonido correspondiente. Una variedad de relevantes teorías y disciplinas, como la teoría del cine sonoro y la sonificación, se usan para construir nuestra base metodológica, y nos servimos de ejemplos como el del subgénero del «First-Person Shooter». Este tipo de juegos incluye las series «Doom» y «Quake», la serie «Half-Life» y sus derivados y juegos posteriores como «Left 4 Dead». La combinación del ambiente acústico, la posición interactiva del jugador –con la encarnación virtual de sus brazos protésicos– en el medio ambiente y las relaciones sonoras entre los jugadores produce la ecología acústica. Una exposición de esta comunicación multijugador, la ecología acústica resultante y la inmersión del jugador, es el objetivo principal del ensayo.

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Cinema of the Gun

Global Media Convergence and Cultural Transformation ◽

10.4018/978-1-60960-037-2.ch019 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 296-310

Author(s):

Sam Hinton

Keyword(s):

Computer Games ◽

Science And Technology Studies ◽

Social Economic ◽

First Person ◽

The Past ◽

Cultural Conditions ◽

Technological Artifacts ◽

Production And Consumption ◽

The Subject ◽

First Person Shooter

Games, like other technological artifacts, do not fall mysteriously from orbit. They are constructed by humans within a matrix of social, economic and cultural conditions of production and consumption. Technologies including the refrigerator, the M16 machine gun and the bicycle have famously been the subject of so-called science and technology studies (STS) analyses, following MacKenzie and Wajcman, Pinch and Bijker and Latour and Callon, among others. Aside from a few initial forays, games have largely escaped this kind of in-depth and sustained analysis. This chapter argues for the use of STS in games research and uses an STS approach to explore the evolution of a ’genre’ of computer games – the first person shooter, or FPS – and in particular the cinematic turn that has taken place within this genre over the past decade.

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Cheat Detection in a Multiplayer First-Person Shooter Using Artificial Intelligence Tools

2020 The 3rd International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Systems ◽

10.1145/3440840.3440857 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Ruan Spijkerman ◽

Elizabeth Marie Ehlers

Keyword(s):

Artificial Intelligence ◽

First Person ◽

First Person Shooter

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Perancangan Game First Person Shooter 3D “Saving Islamic Kingdom” dengan Menggunakan Finite State Machine (FSM)

Walisongo Journal of Information Technology ◽

10.21580/wjit.2020.2.2.6981 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 125

Author(s):

Muhammad Andryan Wahyu Saputra ◽

Juniardi Nur Fadila ◽

Fresy Nugroho

Keyword(s):

Artificial Intelligence ◽

Video Game ◽

Finite State Machine ◽

State Machine ◽

First Person ◽

Finite State ◽

First Person Shooter

Video Game merupakan sebuah permainan dengan manifestasi sebuah visual atau gambar yang dapat memberikan reaksi balik kepada pengguna jika diberikan perintah - perintah tertentu yang terdapat pada alat kontrol sistem elektronik. Banyak inovasi teknologi yang dapat diterapkan dalam sebuah game salah satunya penerapan kecerdasan buatan atau artificial intelligence. Variasi game yang akan diterapkan salah satunya adalah game First Person Shooter (FPS). Game First Person Shooter (FPS) merupakan salah satu jenis game yang sering dimainkan menggunakan pangamatan orang pertama di mana player sebagai karakter utama dalam game. Kecerdasan buatan yang dikembangkan dengan menerapkan Finite State Machine (FSM) berfungsi untuk melihat respon perilaku Non Player Character (NPC) atau musuh untuk menyerang pemain utama. Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah game Saving Islamic Kingdom memberikan hasil kecerdasan buatan pada perilaku Non Player Character dengan mengimplementasikan algoritma Finite State Machine (FSM) sehingga musuh atau NPC dapat berperilaku sesuai dengan intruksi yang dilakukan oleh player.

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