Poll #12: 5/08/00 - 5/30/00



The Next Advance in Game AI: 2000
Where do you think the next innovations in game AI will come from?
  
First-person shooters? (46)

16%

  
Real-time strategy games? (60)

21%

  
Turn-based strategy games? (15)

5%

  
RPGs? (58)

20%

  
Sports games? (6)

2%

  
"Classic" games of some kind (checkers, chess, etc.)? (7)

2%

  
The academic world? (13)

5%

  
The military research world? (27)

10%

  
I don't forsee any real innovations coming for quite some time yet. (26)

9%

  
Other (type in your own genre). (26) (User-Suggestions)

9%


Total Votes: 284

FINAL RESULTS

Steve's Comments: It's interesting to compare this poll with the same one from 1999. Real-time strategy games still appear to be the area from which most folks think real AI innovations are going to come from--is this because these games are the most popular, or because people think that the constraints of real-time will force innovation?