Marko Tot

Hello, Twitter world! I'm Marko, a PhD. student at @iggiphd working with some awesome people at @GameAI_QMUL on creating a forward model for multi-agent reinforcement learning. #RL **End goal**: Allow AI to predict the future!!! 🧞 But for now, let's just solve the gridworld.

Finally I can share this with friends! When @smdvln showed me what WHAM can do on my first day of the internship I asked: "Wait, this works? I can control it? Without a game engine?!?". Thank you for the great 4 months at the Game Intelligence Team @katjahofmann, @ralgeorgescu!

We won the Best "Feature" award for our eyetracking racing game! The games which runs only if you close your eyes 👀. Amazing work by @RuizheYu, @LlamaHatVR and Dominik Jeurissen.

@o_withington Amazing read, thanks Ollie! What a lovely bunch of recommendations on how to spend an already limited amount of free time. Looking forward for the next year's blog 😄

I played 29 different games in 2023 and thought it would be fun to have a go at writing mini-reviews for each one. Come for the untimely and lukewarm takes. Stay for the rambling! blog.owithington.co.uk/2023/03/10/the…

The first rule of #GameAI research: Don't let the AI be better than you! Bring it on #AlphaStar!!

making my algorithm run in O(N) time by simply setting N=2^n

Conference submission guidelines: Submissions can consist of up to 8 pages. Me this morning:

I had a chance to talk about AI in Games with some wonderful people @AmandineFlachs, Daniel Hernandez, @Pacheco_CrisP. What do you think? Can making the AI worse make them better? @iggiphd

Student = 1 Teacher = 0

Day 1 of #GameAIHAck done, Day 2 starting soon. Plan - Try to implement a new modification for MCTS in 48h Reality - Debug and fix old code, setup everything, laugh, and play board games with @b_gum22 @ballamist @diego_pliebana #WorthIt

Game development in action

@LukeD's talk at @GameAISchool was definitely something special! I loved it so much! "Player analytics in games", a topic that I knew nothing about explained in such a great way. @zynga Even if the next talk @LukeD does is about types of detergent powder, I'd come and listen!

@arashdeclares @aphrael @totalwar @CAGames @GameAISchool It was awesome to see so many subsystems and the complexity required to make a decent AI in a AAA game, and this is only for the strategy phase. There is surely a whole other system for the battle phase as well

@Lightsider23 @aphrael @totalwar @CAGames @GameAISchool I enjoyed this talk as well ! It was very informative and compact :)

Thank you @aphrael for the epic presentation and the close-up view of the AI in the @totalwar series! All of the work/thinking that your @CAGames team has done to create the AI system is really impressive. Also really glad that MCTS was used on several occasions! @GameAISchool

@mtrc Chess: (I) That knight seems trapped. (S) Check every possibility of it getting out. Moba: (I) That hero is out of position. (S) Find a best way to gank it To have an idea of what you are doing you need instinct. To make sure you are doing it right, you need search.

@mtrc Such an awesome question :D, and probably the main topic of my next year of research. So here are my two cents. In my experience, instinct (macro) defines the goal, and search (micro) finds an optimal way to it. Without instinct, search is just a shot in the dark!

Was thinking today about look-ahead in games, the idea of imagining possible ways a game could play out, which humans do a lot when strategising, and which AI also do (we call it 'search' when AI do it). I have a couple of tweets + a question for people who are good at games.

Doing some calculations after modifying my AI algorithm Results: The probability of the agent finishing the level successfully is 1 in 678,223,072,849 Me:

After multiple days of coding and 12h spent on discord calls each day, #ThePit, a chaotic online multiplayer game is finished! #LudumDare @Carlotes247, @Pacheco_CrisP, Joe Hesketh, it was a pleasure to go through this journey with you! 😁 Try it out: ldjam.com/events/ludum-d…

PhD student: There's a word limit and I don't know how to cut this paper any shorte... Senior coauthor:

@Impetus_Music Happy to help! It's really an awesome website. A bit too late for the Stage0/TAP lit review, but just in time to fill these two months of no modules with a lot of reading. :D

@Lightsider23 is a life saver, having shared this site with the rest of our IGGI cohort. Give it a paper title and it will give you related papers! connectedpapers.com

Update. Hello! I'm Michael, I'm an @iggiphd student with @UniOfYork and @QMUL My research is looking into how we can use games as a form of treatment in mental health for young people, specifically surrounding anxiety and phobias. Conquering fears through video games