Agents in Distributed Games

• The main reason for distributed games is that you can interact with real people.
• However, it also gives really great scope for agents.
• It gives an obvious Turing test.
• More cycles can be devoted to agents. This can be from fat clients or from the cloud.
• Another issue is how the game evolves. Does the environment change on its own. Do trees grow, animals reproduce, and agents change autonomously?
• In a really big game, the environment should have rules to change.
• How is that implemented.
• This is closely related to the frame problem.