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Regina

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PDS is happy to present:
My name is: Martin Anward
My forum nick is: Wiz
At Paradox development studio I work as: AI Programmer
So what do I do, really – what does that mean? Depending on who you ask, it either means that I work on the AI for various PDS titles, or that I *am* the AI for various PDS titles. Which theory you choose to believe is up to you.
I have worked on: Crusader Kings II: The Old Gods and Sons of Abraham, Victoria II: Heart of Darkness, Europa Universalis 4.
Right now I´m working on: It's a secret to everyone.
I have decorated my desk with: A book of secrets (no reading) and a motion detecting portal turret. Sadly the latter makes too much noise to keep it on when other people are at the office.
My hobbies include: History (duh), computer games (duh), board games, hiking, working towards the creation of sentient artificial life (duh).
My super power is: Always being able to pick the exact time the coffee machine is being cleaned to go get coffee.
And out of the 7 deadly sins, I am definitely guilty of: Pride
My best game ever and why I like it (that I did not create): Morrowind. Yeah, it's a clunky game mechanics-wise and the NPCs are all walking encyclopedias... but it also has the best written, most unique and most engrossing world and lore that has ever graced an RPG, and the ability to explore that world in an open world game simply makes it my favorite title of all time.
Little known fact about a Paradox Development Studio game: Victoria II: Heart of Darkness expansion introduced the historical but previously overlooked nation of Jan Mayen to our games. I highly recommend giving them a play.

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Polar Bear nation for teh win.
 
Board games ! Which are your favorite board games ? Are you rather ameritrash or eurogames ?

Also, I think AI is the most important part of any strategy game. So many titles (*cough*rometw2*cough*) feel like you're playing against a two-year old. Keep it up!
 
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Regina said:
working towards the creation of sentient artificial life (duh).
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With what you've done so far for the PDS AIs, you might well get there one day.
 
Here is a short clip from the office of Wiz while we were developing EU4:

[video=youtube;HwBmPiOmEGQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwBmPiOmEGQ[/video]
 
Crater122 said:
I didn't know that coding AI meant adding a fantasy strait since I can't code proper naval invasions.
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A) It's not fantasy
B) As far as professionally produced games go, you can expect most issues to be caused by time constraint, not by the inability to solve them.
 
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Crater122 said:
I didn't know that coding AI meant adding a fantasy strait since I can't code proper naval invasions.
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Which strait do you mean
 
Mef said:
Damn, the self-learning AI has already learned how to answer questions and post fake pictures of itself? Scary...
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This was the picture I submitted, but it was deemed 'classified'.

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lord_hur said:
Board games ! Which are your favorite board games ? Are you rather ameritrash or eurogames ?

Also, I think AI is the most important part of any strategy game. So many titles (*cough*rometw2*cough*) feel like you're playing against a two-year old. Keep it up!
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Right now I mostly play Arkham Horror, Agricola, Diplomacy, Mansions of Madness, Axis&Allies... so a mix really. Favorites vary a bit but nothing beats Axis & Allies 1940 with both boards combined.

Crater122 said:
I didn't know that coding AI meant adding a fantasy strait since I can't code proper naval invasions.
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The strait was added because there was no time to work on naval AI, pretty much. Nobody was happy with the solution but it made the British AI more active in Europe so I felt it was a lesser evil.
 
Wiz said:
This was the picture I submitted, but it was deemed 'classified'.

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No wonder you pretend that the coffee machine is "always being cleaned" when you want to get coffee, you don't seem to have a digestive system or hands that can hold a cup. Must be hard having only been built for a single purpose...
 
Regina said:
My best game ever and why I like it (that I did not create): Morrowind. Yeah, it's a clunky game mechanics-wise and the NPCs are all walking encyclopedias... but it also has the best written, most unique and most engrossing world and lore that has ever graced an RPG, and the ability to explore that world in an open world game simply makes it my favorite title of all time.
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LOVE that game. Lets talk about how ugly the characters are some time. This calendar is great, I learn so much about my co-workers. :)
 
Kallocain said:
LOVE that game. Lets talk about how ugly the characters are some time. This calendar is great, I learn so much about my co-workers. :)
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You mean you played with Better Bodies and Better Heads??? I didn't know Morrowind could be played with the default models (they really were very very ugly).

Also:
[video=youtube;ZWuNf4gxwuM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWuNf4gxwuM[/video]
 
Wiz created ck2+, my favourite mod for any ck2, so I owe him several beers.

Love you mate, when I thought ck2+ had died it was kinda soul-crushing. It is great that you found someone who can actually continue to work on it and so well too!
 
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