Bayesian Programming and Learning for Multi-Player Video Games ...

meta-game preparation and maneuvering before (and between) games to exploit: current
trends, opponent’s style and weaknesses, map’s specificities (safe zones, back doors, timings),
and psychological “mind games”.. 176
micro-management gameplay actions that are manually addressed by the player; the way of
maximizing one’s army efficiency by using the units to the maximum of their potential..
57, 63, 65, 69–71, 76, 205
mineral basic resource in StarCraft, used for everything. It can be harvested increasingly faster
with the number of workers (up to an asymptote).. 57, 59, 60, 100
mini-map radar view of the full game area, shown in the bottom corner of the interface in
StarCraft.. 60
MMORPG Massively Multi-player Online Role Playing Game, distinct of RPG by the scale
of cooperation sometimes needed to achieve a common goal, e.g. Dark Age of Camelot,
World of Warcraft. 14, 41, 46, 47
NPC non-playing characters: game AI controlled third party characters, which were not conceived
to be played by humans by opposition to “bots”. 13–15, 55
opening in Chess as in RTS games: the first strategic moves of the game, the strategy of the
early game. 59, 61, 64, 119, 121–123, 140, 159, 160, 172
partisan (game) which is not impartial, in which a player can do actions another can not do
(move a faction while the other player(s) cannot). 19
perfect-information (game) in which all the players have complete knowledge of the (board)
state of the game. 19
POMDP partially observable Markov decision process. 35, 69, 92
positional hashing a method for determining similarities in (board) positions using hash functions.
22
pro-gamer professional gamer, full-time job. 14, 58
PvE Players vs Environment. 15, 29, 47
PvP Players versus Players. 15
replay the record of all players’ actions during a game, allowing the game engine to recreate
the game state deterministically. 14, 58, 99, 122
replayability replay value, entertainment value of playing the game more than once. 15
RL reinforcement learning. 72
RPG Role Playing Game, e.g. Dungeons & Dragons based Baldur’s Gate. 14, 30, 36, 89
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