A Game AI Competition to foster Collaborative AI research and development
This competition aims to motivate researchers and developers in AI by providing a framework for tackling cooperative and real-time AI problems, though it is incremental as it builds on existing game AI competition formats.
The paper introduces the Geometry Friends Game AI Competition, a two-player cooperative physics-based puzzle platformer designed to foster collaborative AI research by presenting challenges in planning, execution, and motion control that must be solved in real-time, with an overview of current solutions provided.
Game AI competitions are important to foster research and development on Game AI and AI in general. These competitions supply different challenging problems that can be translated into other contexts, virtual or real. They provide frameworks and tools to facilitate the research on their core topics and provide means for comparing and sharing results. A competition is also a way to motivate new researchers to study these challenges. In this document, we present the Geometry Friends Game AI Competition. Geometry Friends is a two-player cooperative physics-based puzzle platformer computer game. The concept of the game is simple, though its solving has proven to be difficult. While the main and apparent focus of the game is cooperation, it also relies on other AI-related problems such as planning, plan execution, and motion control, all connected to situational awareness. All of these must be solved in real-time. In this paper, we discuss the competition and the challenges it brings, and present an overview of the current solutions.