AI AND FUNDAMENTAL GAME TECHNOLOGIESIN FINAL FANTASY XV

4. © 2017 SQUARE ENIX CO.,LTD. All Rights Reserved. • The majority of the members are Japanese. • But some of them are from: China, India, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, etc. (in alphabetical order) • Globalized product development MULTINATIONAL

5. © 2017 SQUARE ENIX CO.,LTD. All Rights Reserved. CG TECHNOLOGY • Develop both of pre-rendering movies, and real-time games. – SIGGRAPH 2016 Electronic Theater “The Universe of FINAL FANTASY XV” – SIGGRAPH 2016 Real-Time Live! “Real-time technologies of FINAL FANTASY XV battles” – Bidirectional technical cooperation and asset sharing. Pre-rendering ⇔ Real-time

6. © 2017 SQUARE ENIX CO.,LTD. All Rights Reserved. ACADEMIC CONTRIBUTION • SIGGRAPH 2017 – CG in Asia – Production Art Gallery – 1 Poster – 2 Talk sessions (Character Art, and Snapshot system) • SIGGRAPH 2016 – Electronic Theater – Real-Time Live! – 5 Talk sessions (AI/Animation, Env, CharModel, Rendering, VFX) • GDC 2017 – “FINAL FANTASY XV: A Challenger Once Again” – “How a Buddy-AI Auto-Snapshots Your Adventure in FFXV” • CEDEC2017 – 3 Sessions (Working Mother, AI, Animation) • CEDEC2016 – 5 Sessions (AI, UI, Backend, Optimization, CharEnv) • Collaborations with Tokyo University of the Arts. ■ Art ■ Technology

7. © 2017 SQUARE ENIX CO.,LTD. All Rights Reserved. WHAT IS VISUAL SCRIPT? • Write logic by assembling visual elements. – scratch (MIT Media Lab.): assembling blocks – node graph based visual script: nodes and edges • Advantages – Readable – Easy to develop • Target / Purpose – For education – For non programmer

8. © 2017 SQUARE ENIX CO.,LTD. All Rights Reserved. WHAT IS VISUAL SCRIPT? (CONTD.) • Visual script for education – scratch – Blockly – Programin (プログラミン) Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. See http://scratch.mit.edu

12. © 2017 SQUARE ENIX CO.,LTD. All Rights Reserved. WHY VISUAL SCRIPTS IN GAME DEV. Requirements • Many non-programmers write many scripts. • Many types of scripts cooperate. • High affinity for native codes. Characteristics of visual scripts • Graphical • Simple semantics Advantages • Low learning cost • High productivity ?

17. © 2017 SQUARE ENIX CO.,LTD. All Rights Reserved. STANDARDIZATION (FOR UI DEV.) • Ununiform skill • Mass production ⇒ Standardization Typical User Interface – External Input Events – State Machine – UI Parts(Widget) ⇒ Standardize layout Input Events State machine Widgets

23. Navigation AI Meta-AI Character AI Dynamic allocation of enemies Observing level in real-time Direction for agents Making progress of game Autonomous thinking Cooperation Team AI Preparing data to make meta-AI and character AI recognize the level Managing object representation Managing Navigation data Path-finding / Tactical point analysis Support Enemy character Player Brain Information Acquisition Control © 2017 SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. All Rights Reserved.

25. Hybrid node format ©2017 SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. All Rights Reserved. State machine Behavior tree A Processing Node can change into Graph Structure. IDLE MOVE FIGHT MOVE ATTACK State machineDifferent types of graph system can be combined.

29. Level Navigation AI Meta-AI Character AI Dynamic allocation of enemies Observing level in real-time Direction for agents Making progress of game Autonomous thinking Cooperation Team AI Preparing data to make meta-AI and character AI recognize the level Managing object representation Managing Navigation data Path-finding / Tactical point analysis Support Enemy character Player Brain Information Acquisition Control © 2017 SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. All Rights Reserved.

33. Attack Motion Analysis ©2017 SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. All Rights Reserved. • Attack Motion Analysis By simulating and analyzing a motion, attack range and attack angle are automatically detected . These information is used in AI Graph. This work has ever been done by game designers. The automation can shorten development works.

35. Movement Motion Analysis • Movement Motion Analysis ©2017 SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. All Rights Reserved. By simulating movement motion, rotation radius and speed control ability are detected Automatically. By using the data chart., motion feature for each character are abstracted.

43. 5. Motion Analysis ©2017 SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. All Rights Reserved. • Attack Motion Analysis The system detect a region where each monster attack will hit by putting opaque sphere around monster. The spheres which is hit by the attack become red. The system detect the region size, position, and angle. The monster remebers the region feature. It saves much development cost by removing game designer’s task.

46. 5. Motion Analysis ©2017 SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. All Rights Reserved. • Travelling Motion Analysis Using an automatic analysis system, we can view the performance of a character’s turning and stopping ability in chart form. From the chart, if there is a problem in the animation data, we can adjust the data.

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AI AND FUNDAMENTAL GAME TECHNOLOGIESIN FINAL FANTASY XV

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