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Reading the Player's Mind Through His Thumbs: Inferring Player Intent Through Controller Input
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Reading the Player's Mind Through His Thumbs: Inferring Player Intent Through Controller Input
Speaker: Chris Zimmerman (Director of Development, Sucker Punch Productions)
Date/Time: Friday (March 12, 2010) 4:30pm — 5:30pm
Location (room): Room 304, South Hall
Track: Programming
Format: 60-minute Lecture
Experience Level: Intermediate

Session Description
A core challenge in making immersive video games is mapping the limited set of actions the player can perform with the controller onto the much broader set of possible player intents in the game world. If done successfully, the player has an immersive experience, that is the player thinks only about what they're doing in the game, not about how to manipulate the controller to get some desired result. This lecture focuses on how we approached this problem in two key areas of inFamous: the aiming/shooting system, and the jumping/climbing system. The core concept presented is to provide intelligent augmentation of the user input, slightly guiding or amending player input towards likely intents.

Intended Audience
The talk will be of interest to anyone working on player control issues in third-person video games, especially in genres that involve human characters and open-ended environments. Programmers and game designers are the core audience. The session focuses more on approaches and algorithms than on implementation details, but details on the math involved is provided in supporting materials.

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