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In the online mobile video game, BarbarQ 2 by Electronic Soul, reinforcement learning-based game bots are applied to its 3vs3vs3 gameplay. These RL-based game bots are used as teammates or opponents of the human players. It turns out that the RL-based bots really improve the player experience.

However, there are a lot challenges in the development process, including the difference between game and AI, game-side bugs impacting negatively on AI model, difficulty of lifting the human-like level of game bots, and more. Fortunately, some innovative ideas have been implemented to solve these problems.

The high-quality game-bots are now available in the game. Some risks, ideas and benefits of applying RL-based game bots will be talked in the session.

Takeaway

Attendees will learn how to develop and apply reinforcement learning-based game bots in MOBA video game. They will also be inspired by their ideas of solving the problems met during the development process. Very importantly, attendees will understand risks they would take and benefits they would gain if they want to apply RL-based game bots into their games.

Intended Audience

This is for game professionals who have problems developing and deploying reinforcement learning-based game bots, or anyone wanting to apply RL-based game bots in their games but also want to know the risks and benefits.