{"id":92942,"date":"2019-05-03T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T19:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/342033"},"modified":"2019-05-03T19:55:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T19:55:00","slug":"video-inside-prismataa-%c2%99s-hierarchical-portfolio-search-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/03\/video-inside-prismataa-%c2%99s-hierarchical-portfolio-search-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Inside Prismata\u00e2&#8364; \u0099s hierarchical portfolio search AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this 2017 GDC session, Lunarch Studios&#8217; David Churchill describes the Hierarchical Portfolio Search AI system created for <em>Prismata<\/em>, and how it can be adapted to fit almost any genre of game, including search-heavy ones like strategy games.<\/p>\n<p>It was a detailed dive into a fascinating technical challenge rich in takeaways for game devs, so&nbsp;if you missed seeing it live, take advantage of the fact that you can now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/342033\/%3Ca%20href=\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sQSL9j7W7uA<\/a>&#8220;&gt;watch it for free on the official GDC YouTube channel!<\/p>\n<p>In addition to this presentation, the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/\">GDC Vault<\/a>&nbsp;and its accompanying&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC0JB7TSe49lg56u6qH8y_MQ\/feed\">YouTube channel<\/a>&nbsp;offers numerous other free videos, audio recordings, and slides from many of the recent&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdconf.com\/\">Game Developers Conference events<\/a>, and the service offers even more members-only content for GDC Vault subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Those who purchased All Access passes to recent events like GDC or&nbsp;VRDC&nbsp;already have full access to GDC Vault, and interested parties can apply for the individual subscription via&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/inquiry\/\">a GDC Vault subscription page<\/a>. Group subscriptions are also available: game-related schools and development studios who sign up for GDC Vault Studio Subscriptions can receive access for their entire office or company by contacting staff via the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/demo\/\">GDC Vault group subscription page<\/a>. Finally, current subscribers with access issues can&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/contact_us.php\">contact GDC Vault technical support<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this 2017 GDC session, Lunarch Studios&#8217; David Churchill describes the Hierarchical Portfolio Search AI system created for Prismata, and how it can be adapted to fit almost any genre of game, including search-heavy ones like strategy games. It was a detailed dive into a fascinating technical challenge rich in takeaways for game devs, so&nbsp;if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}