The Rise of Potential Fields in Real Time Strategy Bots

Bots for Real Time Strategy (RTS) games are challenging to implement. A bot controls a number of units that may have to navigate in a partially unknown environment, while at the same time search for enemies and coordinate attacks to fight them down. Potential fields is a technique originating from the area of robotics where it is used in controlling the navigation of robots in dynamic environments. We show that the use of potential fields for implementing a bot for a real time strategy game gives us a very competitive, configurable, and non-conventional solution. Keywords Agents:Swarm Intelligence and Emergent Behavior, Multidisciplinary Topics and Applications:Computer Games

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: AIIDE
• Authors: Johan Hagelbäck, Stefan J. Johansson
• Keywords: AIIDE 2008, Artificial Intelligence, Potential Fields, Real Time Strategy, Time Strategy Game