Square Enix AI academy: AI workshop for blackboard architecture

Abstract

The purpose of education of game AI is not only to make people understand its knowledge but also to make them effectively use its techniques in game development. But it is difficult to use AI techniques only by hearing a lecture about game AI. SQUARE ENIX AI Academy is a 5 session seminar series with lectures and workshops held by the SQUARE ENIX Advanced Technology Division in the summer and autumn of 2014. The workshops were held after a lecture of a lecture to make attendees have experience to use techniques explained in the lecture. For the first and third seminars, a board game workshop was held, for the second seminar, AI tool application workshop was held, and for the forth seminar, blackboard workshop was held to use blackboard in an agent's inside architecture and agents' communication. In the workshop, the blackboard workshop demonstration is held to a few group with a lecture of the blackboard techniques in digital game character's AI.