Here's how to debug behavior trees in your game when using the Unity Behavior tool. Check out my full 8 minute intro to behavior trees in Unity for the complete walkthrough.

Full tutorial: https://youtu.be/DWlZK5mqC6E

#unity3d #unity #gamedev #gameai #madewithunity

Climbing Up The Walls: Building a Navigation System for Characters That Defy Gravity by Chris Brown from @kythera.ai.
This talk walks through how Kythera built a fully 3D surface navigation system that allows you to walk/climb/crawl over any surface.
#GameAI #GameDev #NavMesh #AIandGamesConference

From Prompt to Character: Copyright Risks in AI-Assisted Game Development by Fernanda Soler, Sr. Independent Legal Consultant.
This talk will discuss the legal issues arising when AI is used to generate content and propose a workflow to be followed by designers when using AI tools.
#gamedev #GameAI

A new arXiv paper formalizes Adversarial Heuristic Learning, where AI agents refine game policies without updating model weights. The benchmark AAArena includes 12 games and 1,920 archived human programs for…

#AIagents #GameAI #ReinforcementLearning #Benchmark
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.12341

Giving NPCs a Voice: Expressing Behavior Through Barks by @philipdunstan.com, Katapult Ridge
This presentation will show a practical approach for a barks system that can be used on adopted by both small indie and massive AAA projects
#AIandGames #GameAI #GameDev

Unpredictable Encounters: Designing Glitchy NPC Animation and Behaviour for Horror by Tania Dales, University of York (iGGi)

About the talk: This talk explores how visual, mechanical, and systemic glitches in NPCs elevate horror in video games.

#AIandGames #GameAI #GameDev

From Multiplayer to Single Player: Shipping Generative AI Temps in Dimensional Double Shift by Brian Tanner and Alex Kearney, Artificial Agency

About the talk: Dimensional Double Shift was designed as a cooperative VR game.

#AIandGames #GameAI #GameDev

I'm curious if anyone has had a serious use for Petri Nets in a video game context. They seem like a neat concept in the abstract.

#gamedev #petrinets #gameAI

Cheat Codes and Compliance Codes: The Legal Playbook for AI and Games in 2026 by Rupam Davé, Lewis Silkin LLP

About the talk: This talk explores the evolving legal landscape surrounding the use of artificial intelligence in the video games industry.

#AIandGames #GameAI #GameDev

From Utility AI to Computational Cognition: Building Believable NPCs with Cognitive Models by Shammi Seth, Heriot-watt University

About the talk: Many modern NPC systems combine behaviour trees, utility AI, planners, and increasingly large language models.

#AIandGames #GameAI #GameDev

How We Taught the Robots in Arc Raiders to Move (Eventually) by Simona Petravić, Embark Studios

About the talk: Physics-based, ML-driven locomotion promises robots that feel alive instead of rigidly cycling through hand-authored clips.

#AIandGames #GameAI #GameDev

A new arXiv paper frames "world editing" as intervening on interactive world models and introduces intervention depth, IGMWorld, and IGMBench, a 110-task benchmark with 1.1K executable criteria across Minecraft and Terraria for…

#AI #WorldModels #GameAI #Benchmark
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02331

Chapter 6 of my "Artificial Intelligence in Unreal Engine 5" book delves deep into the engine AI debugging tools and how to get the best out of them.

#unrealegine #ai #gameai #book #gameplay #gamedev #ue5

Researchers made progress on the AI challenge of Stratego by adding a second neural network that infers the identity of hidden pieces. This…

#Robotics #AI #MachineLearning #GameAI
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/ai-finally-beat-the-best-stratego-player-in-history-and-did-it-on-a-budget/

Well, this is pretty amazing: github.com/urosidoki/ht...

#gameai #gamedev #programming #htnplanner

The Making of SCUM's Wildlife: Scaling AI for a Live Multiplayer Game by Jayanth Erode Mani, Splash Damage

About the talk: A wildlife overhaul that transformed hunting from scripted encounters into a persistent wildlife ecosystem in a live 80-player survival game.
#AIandGames #GameAI #GameDev #SCUM

Your LLM Badly Needs a DM: How Player Research Taught us the Perils of Unlimited Freedom by Richard Cole, University of Bristol and Thomas Keane, @meaningmachine.bsky.social

About the talk: When players are the intelligent agents, how can the game keep up?

#AIandGames #GameAI #GameDev

QA Without Playing the Game: Using LLMs to Generate Solvers for Game Rules by Joris van de Donk, @awscloud.bsky.social

About the talk: What has always been missing is a way to get the rules out of the source code without a specialist writing them out by hand.

#AIandGames #GameAI #GameDev

New arXiv paper explores Inverse Dynamics Models for inferring player inputs from gameplay video frames, analyzing how spatial features, architectures, and objectives affect per-action accuracy at constrained…

#AIResearch #InverseDynamics #GameAI #EmbodiedAgents
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.37907

Navigation in Kingdom Come: Deliverance games
Matej Marko, @warhorsestudios.bsky.social
Optimizing navigation mesh memory for a 4km x 4km level, and combining navigation mesh and navigation graph for efficient pathfinding.
AI and Games Conference, 10-11 Nov, London.
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#GameDev #GameAI