Unity Workshop: Systems and Simulators
1136 Dupont St, Toronto, ON M6H 2A2, Canada
43.668857
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Description
Unity Workshop: Systems and Simulators
The Hand Eye Society presents: Experimental Game Design Workshops 2018! Use simple AI to breath life into your game world with SYSTEMS AND SIMULATORS. Learn how to create needs that cause your virtual characters to interact with the world in ways that are unpredictable and emergent.
General Ticket: $40 + HST
HES Members: $25 + HST (discount code e-mailed on registration)
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
Using a basic artificial intelligence framework for Unity3D called NeedSim Life Simulator (Provided by instructor), participants in this workshop will add needs-based behaviours to their games in order to create dynamic, emergent interactions between AI characters, the game world, and the player. Needs-based AI, described by Robert Zubnek, a designer for The Sims, creates dynamic behaviour by assigning needs to actors and the fulfillment of those needs in the environment. The NeedSim plugin will be used to create needs and interactions to be attached to the actors in the environment. If the students have already existing projects, an attempt could be made to add simulation elements to those.
REQUIRED SKILLS AND EQUIPMENT
Familiarity with Unity is required. Knowledge of how to implement animation in Unity would be a bonus. C# experience also a bonus but not required.
Please bring a laptop with the latest copy of Unity pre-installed, and a USB key if possible.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Jonathan Carroll does interaction and game design for Tough Guy Mountain, and teaches through OCADU, Trinity Square Video, Toronto Animated Images Society, Hand Eye Society, and at Tough Guy Mountain's studio, the Brandscape.
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Start:
2018-03-04T13:00:00-05:00
End:
2018-03-04T16:00:00-05:00
Category
Tech
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