With all of the holidays and other things going on right now, we decided to merge November and December and meet in the middle. This month we will be having our very own Ben Van Treese speaking about all sorts interesting of AI topics:



• Pathfinding - basics of implementation & demo



• Steering Behaviors - Emergent pathfinding / movement & demo



• State Machines - Pulling logic from entities into modular states & demo



• Behavior Trees - A better way to modularize behaviors & demo



• Goal Oriented Action Planning - A way to allow emergent planning of behaviors for entities & demo



GoldFire Studios (http://goldfirestudios.com/) will again be providing pizza and drinks. Core Financial Services (http://coregroupus.com/) and VentureSpur (http://venturespur.com/) will be providing our meeting space in downtown OKC.