Dynamic formations in real-time strategy games

Marcel Van Der Heijden; Sander Bakkes; Pieter Spronck

doi:10.1109/CIG.2008.5035620

Dynamic formations in real-time strategy games

Marcel Van Der Heijden^*, Sander Bakkes, Pieter Spronck

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Current approaches to organising units in strategic video games are typically implemented via static formations. Static formations are not capable of adapting effectively to opponent tactics. In this paper we discuss an approach to organising units by learning the effectiveness of a formation in actual play, and directly applying learned formations according to the classification of the opponent player. This approach to establish so-called dynamic formations, is tested in the ORTS game environment. From our results, we may conclude that the approach to established dynamic formations can be successfully applied in actual video-game environments.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2008
Pages	47-54
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CIG.2008.5035620
Publication status	Published - 2008
Event	2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2008 - Perth, WA, Australia Duration: 15 Dec 2008 → 18 Dec 2008

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Name	2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2008

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Conference	2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2008
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Perth, WA
Period	15/12/08 → 18/12/08

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Van Der Heijden, M, Bakkes, S & Spronck, P 2008, Dynamic formations in real-time strategy games. in 2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2008., 5035620, 2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2008, pp. 47-54, 2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2008, Perth, WA, Australia, 15/12/08. https://doi.org/10.1109/CIG.2008.5035620

Dynamic formations in real-time strategy games. / Van Der Heijden, Marcel; Bakkes, Sander; Spronck, Pieter.
2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2008. 2008. p. 47-54 5035620 (2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2008).

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