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structure of a game is *roughly the same*Renderer Start End Gameplay Audio Initialization I/O AI Physics Rendering AudioStart End Initialization I/O ECS Physics Rendering Audio Simulation place to store, manage and manipulate those resources. Resource Registry Renderer Physics System AI Audio compressed_textures collision_boxes behavior_trees audioResource Registry Resource Registry is 3D with a vast world. Multiple systems ticking, ● Entity Component Systems (ECS) ● Artificial Intelligence ● Animation ● Physics ● Gameplay specific We’ve simulated everything and all that’s

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objects are being destroyed ■ New objects are being created ○ Objects are moving around ○ Artificial intelligence (path finding and other decision making) ○ In-game resource management is taking place objects are being destroyed ■ New objects are being created ○ Objects are moving around ○ Artificial intelligence (path finding and other decision making) ○ In-game resource management is taking place

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recognition ◮ Summary ◮ Q&A 4 / 50Motivation 5 / 50Machine Learning (ML) ◮ Subfield of Artificial Inteligence (AI) ◮ Enables computers to learn from data and then use that knowledge to make predictions to run inference on image 3.3 Show predictions 41 / 50Rock-Paper-Scissors game On each round the AI: 1. Chooses Rock, Paper or Scissors uniformly at random 2. Infers the human’s hand gesture 3. Computes

‘main loop’ we continuously query to see if our function has returned ○ (I have added a few artificial sleeps to make it more interesting) 107Async I/O Simulation ● “mocked” version of using an ‘main loop’ we continuously query to see if our function has returned ○ (I have added a few artificial sleeps to make it more interesting) 108 Here we’ll create a background thread that will execute ‘main loop’ we continuously query to see if our function has returned ○ (I have added a few artificial sleeps to make it more interesting) 109 Here we are reading in ‘bytes’ from a file. Perhaps

game-engine library as an example, which provides several components such as algorithms, ai, rendering, and network. Both ai and rendering depend on the algorithms component. Please, first clone the sources CMakeLists.txt conanfile.py include ai.h algorithms.h network.h rendering.h src (continues on next page) 191 Conan Documentation, Release 2.10.1 algorithms ai rendering network Fig. 1: components components of the game-engine package (continued from previous page) ai.cpp algorithms.cpp network.cpp rendering.cpp test_package CMakeLists.txt CMakeUserPresets.json conanfile.py src example.cpp As you