Videogame designers who make use of a behavior authoring tool to define the behaviors of computer-controlled characters must typically split their attention between the tool and the game. We have built a behavior authoring tool with an improved design experience by merging these two contexts into one. This paper outlines the design and development of a game-independent behavior tree authoring tool called AIPaint. Its user interface allows the designer to build and edit behavior trees via a natural sketching interface overlaid on the game world. The use of AIPaint to create behaviors in two simple games is presented.

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Creator

• Becroft, David Julian
• Bassett, Jesse Putnam
• Mejia, Adrian L.

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042811-002846

Advisor

• Sidner, Candace
• Rich, Charles

Year

• 2011

Date created

• 2011-04-28

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science
• Interactive Media & Game Development
• Interdisciplinary

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• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2021-01-03