Off The Beaten Lane: AI Challenges In MOBAs Beyond Player Control
It targets the MOBA gaming community by suggesting incremental AI applications to solve non-adversarial problems.
The paper identifies challenges in MOBA gaming beyond player control, such as community culture issues, and proposes AI projects to address them, without providing specific numerical results.
MOBAs represent a huge segment of online gaming and are growing as both an eSport and a casual genre. The natural starting point for AI researchers interested in MOBAs is to develop an AI to play the game better than a human - but MOBAs have many more challenges besides adversarial AI. In this paper we introduce the reader to the wider context of MOBA culture, propose a range of challenges faced by the community today, and posit concrete AI projects that can be undertaken to begin solving them.