I’m at present engaged on a multiplayer recreation. I’ve just lately gotten extra conscious of the issue that as an indie multiplayer recreation that provides matchmaking, my recreation would possibly in a short time fall sufferer to a state of affairs the place no person is enjoying, which discourages new gamers from enjoying as a result of there aren’t any lobbies, successfully killing the sport as a result of a chicken-and-egg downside.
I’ve seen a video on faux gamers in io-games some years in the past, the place the narrator got here up with the idea that many standard io-games use AI to seed their servers to forestall the above state of affairs from occurring. My query due to this fact is: Is it unethical to implement AI that pretends to be human as a way to seed a multiplayer foyer?
If that’s the case, what’s the finest technique to cope with this example? Even giant AAA video games typically fall sufferer to the empty-server downside, so it poses a big danger to my indie recreation.
