About Titus Barik

Titus Barik is a student at NC State University.

Introduction to Game AI Using Python

Carolina Games Summit AI Demo

At this year’s Carolina Games Summit, Rogelio and I presented a talk on Introduction to Game AI Using Python. You can browse the project files for your own use (and experimentation!) at our GitHub page.

If you’re interested in learning more about Game AI, take a look at Beginning Game Development with Python and Pygame by Will McGugan (Amazon), as well as Artificial Intelligence for Games by Ian Millington and John Funge (Amazon).

Thanks to everyone who was able to attend!

Colophon: The libraries PyGame and NumPy were used in the development of this demo. The PlanetCute prototyping tiles were used for the sprites, with the free background music provided by Deceased Superior Technician.

A Root Cluster (ARC)

After a few e-mails back and forth, I gained access to the NCSU’s ARC Cluster. The hardware consists of 1728 cores on 108 compute nodes integrated by Advanced HPC. I’m particularly interested in finally having a real environment in which to experiment with NVIDIA CUDA.

Access to the cluster is firewalled; you can first SSH into a public-facing NCSU server, but I’ve found it easiest to use NCSU’s Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client. If you’re using Windows, you can use the PuTTY Key Generator to quickly create a SSH-2 DSA public/private key pair.

Residency

I’ve been approved for in-state tuition rates at North Carolina State University starting this semester.

The review of your application and supporting documentation has been completed. I am pleased to advise that you have been reclassified as in-state for tuition purposes effective Spring 2012 semester.

At least something was accomplished this week.