Alan Zucconi
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๐ What's coming in 2024...
🕑 Added 2023-12-20 11:50:49 +0000 UTCHi everyone! ๐
2023 is almost over, and I think is a good time to let you know what to expect from 2024, and to recap the content I created this year!
๐ค Game AI Course
If you've been following me for a few years, I hope you've noticed a gradual shift in my content. When I started this journey, back in 2015, I posted short articles twice a week. Now, I post long and deep tutorials once every few months. I finally had a chance to work on my biggest project to this date: an online course about classical Game AI in modern video games, covering both theory and practice.
This online course will have around 20-30 hours of content across 12 lectures, covering topics such as behaviour trees, pathfinding, utility theory, goal-oriented action planning, minimax, Monte Carlo tree search, genetic algorithms, and even a tiny bit of neural networks. And there will be a lot of space to discuss the philosophy of AI as well, from the Turing Test to the ethics of Generative AI.
I will cover both theory and practice, and the various assignments will be about creating AIs for classical games (such as Snake, Tetris, and Chess). And for most of the techniques discussed, there will be Unity/C# libraries that you can use for your games and projects.
As a Senior Lecturer, I want to make sure this is as good as any Game AI course offered by a top University. But always with a bit of the same chaotic good energy that permeates everything I do!
I will keep you updated on the progress, and let you know once the course is available. In the meantime, if there is anything you'd like to see please let me know as I haven't recorded all the lectures yet and there's plenty of space to make changes based on your suggestions!
๐ Global Game Jam 2024
Once again, I'm working to host an in-person site for the Global Game Jam 2024. This year Goldsmiths (the University where I work) teamed up with GameDevLondon, as we hope to host the largest site in the world this year!
If you're thinking about taking part and are in London around the 26-27-28 of January, please consider joining the site here: Global Game Jam 2024! I'll be there most of the time, and there will be tea, coffee, biscuits, and food available throughout the event!
And if you're interested, this is a timelapse of the event we ran at Goldsmiths earlier this year: GGJ 2023 @ Goldsmiths!
๐ด Looking back at 2023...
Despite working on a lot of projects at the same time, 2023 has been a surprisingly productive year! This is a recap of the content I produced here on Patreon and YouTube:
Tutorials
Unity 4D
- Understanding the Fourth Dimension
- Extending Unity from 3D to 4D
- Rendering 4D objects
- Creating 4D objects
Videos
- A guide to ChatGPT
- The Fourth Dimension is Real
- (plus a ton of short videos!)
Games Library Night: Games, Sex & Romance
- Games, Sex & Romance (Keynote)
- Don't fade to black by Ben Sabin
- Quality Smooch by Anna Winterstein
- Gamified Sextech by Chloรฉ Locatelli
๐ Thanks!
As always, all of this would have not been possible without your support and encouragement! I hope you'll stick around for what's coming, as I have SO! MANY! ideas for new videos and tutorials! ๐
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