Top posts

Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,334 posts.

AI & Machine Learning
Any year
4013

The Low-Tech AI of Elden Ring

FROMSOFT has a reputation for diverse and punishing npc encounters across the entire Soulsborne extended series, but the implementation of the AI decision making itself is perhaps unexpectedly low-tech. Since the majority of the code is implemented in Havok Script (A games-oriented Lua implementation from Havok) it’s…