Unreal goal bots: conceptual design of a reusable interface

  • Authors:

  • Koen V. Hindriks;Birna Van Riemsdijk;Tristan Behrens;Rien Korstanje;Nick Kraayenbrink;Wouter Pasman;Lennard De Rijk

  • Affiliations:

  • Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands;Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands;Clausthal University of Technology, Clausthal, Germany;Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands;Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands;Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands;Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Agents for games and simulations II
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

It remains a challenge with current state of the art technology to use BDI agents to control real-time, dynamic and complex environments. We report on our effort to connect the GOAL agent programming language to the real-time game UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2004. BDI agents provide an interesting alternative to control bots in a game such as UNREAL TOURNAMENT to more reactive styles of controlling such bots. Establishing an interface between a language such as GOAL and UNREAL TOURNAMENT, however, poses many challenges. We focus in particular on the design of a suitable and reusable interface to manage agent-bot interaction and argue that the use of a recent toolkit for developing an agent-environment interface provides many advantages. We discuss various issues related to the abstraction level that fits an interface that connects high-level, logic-based BDI agents to a real-time environment, taking into account some of the performance issues.