Bungie's Halo AI secrets exposed in technical review
by Griffin McElroy 
on Sep 9th 2010 9:45PM
If you're looking for information about a hot new gun that will be
shootable in the almost-here
Halo: Reach, you might want to flip to one of the
many other stories we've written about the game. If you want super esoteric insight into the high-functioning AI design of the series -- that is to say, the enemies' actual programmed intelligence, and not the game's
fictional AI constructs -- we suggest checking out
AI Game Dev's 42-point analysis on Bungie's tricks and innovations for making those pesky Elites so darn
pesky.
Of course, these tips will really only benefit you if you happen to be a game designer or programmer, though we suppose you could hypothetically use the information to impress your friends while playing
Reach next week. "Look at the way Bungie implemented those perceptual information objects," you might say to your awestruck cohorts. "Man, that really must have cut down on some memory fragmentation and recycling problems."
