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Atty
August 16th, 2007, 05:31 PM
The “If, then” show: AI Programmer Damian Isla is welcomed aboard this week’s Bungie Podcast. On this week’s show, Damian explains how the AI in Halo 3 works, how Equipment changed his job and how Halo 3’s AI has changed from Halo 2 to Halo 3.

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Bungie Podcast 081607, 1:02:34, 71.6 MB (http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/8/5/d85ce76f-0cb2-41df-aaae-a8c96790332b/Bungie_Podcast_81607.mp3)

1:20 – Meet AI Programmer Damian Isla
6:25 – How n00b members of the press play Halo 3
7:28 – Differences between Halo 2 and Halo 3’s AI
10:12 – The “Garage” Encounter on Tsavo Highway – think tons of Brutes
11:33 – How AI works, boiled down to simple terms so that we can understand
13:52 – Conveying the intelligence of AI to the player
20:22 – The evolution of the Brute pack structure
26:03 – The dynamic AI of Halo 3’s Covenant Scarab
29:50 – How Niles Sankey sets a scene for a Scarab encounter
36:17 – Fake commercial break, without a fake commercial
37:23 – More on Ske7chZork, his self-created Junior High text adventure
38:20 – Ske7ch is a high roller in NYC
43:00 – Ske7ch and Epic’s Cliffyb are BFF
45:25 – What Luke really does after work
47:02 – Playing with fire in an earlier time in Halo 3
48:55 – Reader Mail
1:01:17 – Sign-offs and farewells

Dr Dmoney
August 16th, 2007, 10:11 PM
Listening Right Now

Ki11a_FTW
August 17th, 2007, 12:04 AM
ooo i will listen to this tommorow

fatso784
August 18th, 2007, 09:57 AM
Its good they bring on different people we don't normally see, but do most of the work on the game. Those people don't get the credit they deserve most of the time.

Botolf
August 18th, 2007, 10:57 AM
The spammage of equipment, jet-packs, pack grenade volley, beserking only as a last resort, and the ability to climb rocks, etc are bound to make me love the Brutes in H3, they were so damn annoying in Halo 2, just beserk-beserk-beserk :p

Ki11a_FTW
August 19th, 2007, 06:42 PM
i hope they made a climbing animation this time

Terry
August 19th, 2007, 06:43 PM
Oh yeah...That's true. But they probably wont since they also want you to shoot dual wields while going up ladders.

Warsaw
August 19th, 2007, 07:07 PM
What, you can't climb a ladder without using your hands?