AI Cooperation:
ARL STRONG Project
Under Dr. Erik Harpstead's guidance, our team has been exploring the topic of asymmetric cooperation in multiplayer game settings. However, what happens when AI agents are introduced into this system to directly cooperate with human players? Will human players be able to identify the AI agent? How will their dynamics change? Can AI agents truly cooperate with humans to progress and solve given tasks?
A project in collaboration with the CMU Human Computer Interaction Institute and Georgia Tech, our team presented this project at
Foundations of Digital Games conference 2023 held in Lisbon, Portugal.
The duration of this project was from Sept 2022 to May 2023.
What's cooking? - FDG 2023
I worked as the main level designer who built the testing environments for the AI agent. Specifically, we focused on the environment of "What's Cooking" during this time period.
Our team created a four player multiplayer asymmetric cooperative cooking game where players must utilize the conveyor belts connecting the kitchens to communicate and cooperate. Here are some of the work below, as well as an UI/UX video by our teammate Kat to explain the dynamics of the game.
"What's Cooking" rules tutorial:
The AI is currently being implemented into our project with collaborative efforts from the Georgia Tech team. Our team is also refining another asymmetric cooperative game environment to make more testing conditions for the AI agents.
Check out more of the progress in the Tact Phase Two page!
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