Name Richard Evans Role AI researcher | ||
Organizations founded LittleTextPeople |
Richard Evans (born 23 October 1969) is an artificial intelligence (AI) specialist working in computer games.
He is the co-founder, along with Emily Short, of Little Text People, developing real-time multiplayer interactive fiction. Little Text People was acquired by Linden Lab in January 2012 for an undisclosed sum.
Previously, he was at EA/Maxis, as the AI lead on The Sims 3.
He designed and implemented the AI for Black & White, for which he received a number of awards, including the Game Developer Choice Award for Programming Excellence. For this game he combined a number of different AI techniques from apparently competing AI paradigms, including perceptron training, and decision tree learning. The artificial creature in Black & White holds the Guinness World Record for most intelligent being in a game. Black and White is Number 1 in AIGameDev's most influential AI games.
He is particularly interested in the application of formal logic to AI applications.