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Rage ambitions forced id to get serious about AI, says Hooper

id's Matt Hooper said at GDC Paris yesterday that the design ambitions for post-apolcalyptic action title Rage have forced the company to take on an AI designer as well as an AI programmer.

"Our gameplay goals for Rage are so much more than we’ve ever had before, that if you don’t have an AI designer working with an AI programmer, then you’re just going to be in bad shape," he said. "So we’ve been forced to do that, just by the breadth of our design goals."

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Patrick Garratt is a games media legend - and not just by reputation. He was named as such in the UK's 'Games Media Awards', the equivalent of a lifetime achievement award. After garnering experience on countless gaming magazines, he joined Eurogamer and later split from that brand to create VG247, putting the site on the map with fast, 24-hour a day coverage, and assembling the site's earliest editorial teams. He retired from VG247, and the games industry, in 2017.
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