That means our AI has to be more honest and has to make more believable decisions." " if you just sit back and watch your computer for a while, the AI will take over and also control the actions of your sims. The AI is controlling characters to do fundamentally different things than the player characters do….They're really operating in a different world with different possibilities," Ingebretson says. "In many other games, the AI serves as a foil to the player. However, The Sims franchise stands apart. In gaming, AI usually refers to how the environment, and particularly non-player characters, interacts with the world and the player. Resting at the heart of every Sims game is its artificial intelligence, the endless web of models and possible outcomes that runs the world behind the scenes. This image visualizes the potential routing outcomes for a Sim changing posture in The Sims 4 "Now we can say 'Sims can now walk through doors without getting stuck,' but it's actually extremely difficult to make that happen. After researching human social behavior, the developers made Sims less awkward and more believable. "Ever since The Sims 1 people have complained about the behavior of Sims," says Peter Ingebretson, a software engineer on The Sims 4.
One step forward is tweaking the routing system, or the way Sims navigate. Making The Sims to continue to be more believable, more dimensional, and to have more nuance to their behaviors is something we always strive for." "There's always things that we want to do with The Sims that we are never able to realize at various points or things we couldn't yet figure out what to do. "In a way, it's sort of like building three or four games at the same time," says The Sims 4 lead producer Lyndsay Pearson, who's been with the franchise since the beginning. The game integrates online social aspects, such as sharing house builds, Sims, and room decorations, and streamlined building for players who want to jump into the action. But the technology underneath-the bones and sinews that hold the universe together-is seeing a major upgrade for the fourth generation.įor The Sims 4, the studio built a more powerful character creator, letting players tug, push, pull, and adjust every last detail about a Sim. Like any sequel, the game will feel like an old friend: You're still going to create your own sims, build your own house, determine your own lives, and hopefully not kill or neglect your own avatar. On September 2, 2014, Electronic Arts' Maxis studio will launch The Sims 4, the new core installment of the hugely successful PC franchise. The Sims series is a powerful world-building toolbox with 14 years of experience.
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