Need Ai Programmer For Mod, Urgent!

[pokemonmaster1]

Hello, my name is Daniel "ninonybox" Reinert, and I am a friend, model, and voice actor for the developers of the upcoming Half Life 2 co-op modification "Faceless". It is a different take on all the slenderman themed games that have started to spring up. This game will have a in depth story, online action, and a horrifying enemy.....that you cannot kill. The mod has been in development for over a year, and is gained a strong following as well as awards. Unfortunately the development has hit a snag, as well as standstill. We are currently lacking a dedicated AI Programmer, someone to breath some life into our monster. I shall now quote the exact job posting.

"As many of you are excited for, we've been designing and developing a Slenderman AI that is capable of more than just teleporting to you while your back is turned. In the process of creating a more dynamic, interesting enemy to pursue you and your friends, we've needed to build up a strong programming department. It's the scripting and coding that brings life into our terrifying being (as well as the souls of lost children).

In light of this, we're looking to expand the programming portion of the team to a dedicated AI programmer. The community here at ModDB has some of the most talented and experienced developers in the modding world. I know of no better place to ask for a clever programmer to step up and join us in creating a monster that players won't forget.

There's a job listing in the jobs section of ModDB, but just in case, here are some of the "requirements" we're looking for.

Required Skills:
-Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (C++)
-Familiarity with programming for the Source SDK (2007)
-Efficient and responsive work ethic
-Familiarity with AI and gameplay mechanic construction
Recommended/Appealing Skills:
-Experience playing and working with survival horror games
-Experience playing and working with multiplayer (especially cooperative) games

Contact me (Dillon âEU~ForbiddenDonutz' Rogers) or email me at [e-mail] if you are interested."

(If this post is in the wrong section I am very sorry.)

[PMMurphy]

At 3/31/13 06:49 PM, pokemonmaster1 wrote: Hello, my name is Daniel "ninonybox" Reinert, and I am a friend, model, and voice actor for the developers of the

So you were going to explain what kind of AI you wanted? Or would it be 100% up to the developer to come up with the AI himself?

AI isn't so simple to the point you can staple the same ai for all games including in-genre AI.

Also "should know ai structure"

What ai structure?

The AI structure i study is EP + neural networks AI.

But i highly doubt that is in your mod.

Anyway im just rambling i don't even qualify cuz i don't know c++.

[pokemonmaster1]

At 3/31/13 07:07 PM, PMMurphy wrote:

At 3/31/13 06:49 PM, pokemonmaster1 wrote: Hello, my name is Daniel "ninonybox" Reinert, and I am a friend, model, and voice actor for the developers of the

So you were going to explain what kind of AI you wanted? Or would it be 100% up to the developer to come up with the AI himself?

AI isn't so simple to the point you can staple the same ai for all games including in-genre AI.

Also "should know ai structure"

What ai structure?

The AI structure i study is EP + neural networks AI.

But i highly doubt that is in your mod.

Anyway im just rambling i don't even qualify cuz i don't know c++.

I'm the voice actor, model, and "community man" for the dev team. It was just my job to try and get this project going again.

[PMMurphy]

I'm just curious what kind of AI you plan to implement.

My friend who worked for 434 industries in halo 4 was able to tell me technical information about their artificial intelligence designs they implemented in halo 4.

He was just a beta tester some 15 or 14 year old.

All because you don't do coding doesn't mean you don't know about it. Sorry if i came off as agressive XD.

[pokemonmaster1]

At 3/31/13 08:01 PM, PMMurphy wrote: I'm just curious what kind of AI you plan to implement.

My friend who worked for 434 industries in halo 4 was able to tell me technical information about their artificial intelligence designs they implemented in halo 4.

He was just a beta tester some 15 or 14 year old.

All because you don't do coding doesn't mean you don't know about it. Sorry if i came off as agressive XD.

Oh that's fine, truth be told I am not the best man to ask seeing as how I am not part of the immediate team.

[PMMurphy]

I would never make someone who wasn't on the dev team promote my dev team unless they did it willingly.

But thats cool. I am too lazy to go find out what kind of AI they implement.

Mostly because the AI i would want to implement wouldn't make a whole lot of sense in a horror stalker game like slender. But then again, it would be pretty fucking awesome to see evolutionary evolving neural networks stalking and hunting people down.

Actually. That would be insanely badass.

If you don't know what that is.

A neural network is exactly what it is in neuro science. Its a way to dipect the brain wave patterns that process in our brain to create a learning behavior. It is implemented in artificial intelligence as a "easy way out approach" because the weights from node to node change the way the information gets processed and they progressive regress and change through the course of the program. Thus emulated how our brains neuural networks actually work in the learning process.

While EP stands for evolutionary programming. Its a technique of programming where you use genetic algorithms and evolutionary algorithms. These are optimization techniques in computer science that basically solve problems people don't know how.

Genetic algorithms will solve things in a binary situation, such as a string of 0101010101010101100100101110100 conditions. Where the events are either true or false. While an evolutinary algorithm does the same thing as a genetic but instead of being limited to just 0's and 1's you can create any object or anything any equation and variable any number and if you wanted to you could even depict letters and strings.

Basically what happens when AI programs combine these 2 techniques of programming is the evolutionary algorithm introduces highly creative ideas that nobody would ever think of because they simply don't make any sense. Then the neural networks would process them.

With the combinational power of a neural network and evolutionary algorithms processing the weights and training the network, it has potential to create some HIGHLY creative solutions to problems in artificial intelligence and computer science.

In layman's terms.

It solves problems without being told how to solve it. Completely on its own based on numbers and things we probably would never think of.

[pokemonmaster1]

At 3/31/13 08:48 PM, PMMurphy wrote: I would never make someone who wasn't on the dev team promote my dev team unless they did it willingly.
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Well I certainly learned something today. Also I am doing this scouting of my own desire, seeing as how I want to play this game as well.

[PMMurphy]

cool stuff. But making a nerual network capable of being slender and wrapping it in a evolutionary algorithm that actually solves a logical problem.

Is a mystery and is easily doctorate phd thesis level work.

Its not easy programming XD

But one can dream of such programs!

Also the computational time it would require to execute such a massive program would be soooooooooo muuuuuccchhhhh