About artificial intelligence in games in two words Actually, I'm not a scientist and even not a programmer, but I studied AI sinse it's merely interesting. I took a course in game developing on coursera an there were some information about different topics. In their course they teach you about crafting a plot, a character and logic. So, in computer games we have only two types of characters: player and non-player. Really, that's all. I mean, it can be you and your friend, and you both are players. Non-player character usually is controlled by computer, according to some rules. Rules are made and predetermined by a gamemaster. If you have played someday computer game, you know, that is not always easy to play. That's one of the rules of any game - it need to be not very easy. It's not interesting then, isn't it? Even games for 3-4 years old children aren't very easy for them, but enough to keep their interest, enough to develop their minds. That's fun, that game design and game developing (not as for programmer, idk) is literally very close to writing. Why it's so interesting to play? Why thousands of people like to play, why they (and I mean we, when I say they) spend a lot of time for games? A lot of people like reading. And playing is close to reading - but you can participate in this story, you can choose what to do, how to behave. It's like interactive reading, visualised. It's a different universe - every game, every book! As a writer, I like games. But usually I don't play :) I know myself and I have realised, that if I will start, I will spend for this game 2-5-10 days... Maximum. But no more. Then I will not play about a year. I just prefer to create such universes, to make stories, to read. Now, where was I? I different topic... When you play a lot of time with NPC, you figured out how it behaves, and it became dull. If you play with PC it's more time, but then it's the same story, because players figure out winning strategies. What a mess in the text. But it's interesting for me. Thank you for reading.