Pogamut 3 Can Assist Developers in Building AI (Not Only) for Their Videogame Agents

Many research projects oriented on control mechanisms of virtual agents in videogames have emerged in recent years. However, this boost has not been accompanied with the emergence of toolkits supporting development of these projects, slowing down the progress in the field. Here, we present Pogamut 3, an open source platform for rapid development of behaviour for virtual agents embodied in a 3D environment of the Unreal Tournament 2004 videogame. Pogamut 3 is designed to support research as well as educational projects. The paper also briefly touches extensions of Pogamut 3; the ACT-R integration, the emotional model ALMA integration, support for control of avatars at the level of gestures, and a toolkit for developing educational scenarios concerning orientation in urban areas. These extensions make Pogamut 3 applicable beyond the domain of computer games.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: AGS
• Authors: Jakub Gemrot, Rudolf Kadlec, Michal Bída, Ondrej Burkert, Radek Píbil, Jan Havlícek, Lukás Zemcák, Juraj Simlovic, Radim Vansa, Michal Stolba, Tomás Plch, Cyril Brom
• Keywords: AGS 2009, Computer Graphics, Many Research Projects, Toolkits Supporting Development, Virtual Agents