CMSI 5998 - Agentic AI in Game Development

Professor Andrew Forney • Andrew.Forney[at]lmu.edu • Summer 2026

Welcome to CMSI-5998 5 / 19 / 26

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First things first, please read through the course syllabus located here (or in the Materials tab above).

Lecture Notes
Date	Lecture Subject
Lecture 5-1 6 / 16 / 26	The Great Balancing Act Approaches to difficulty adjustment, game balancing, and matchmaking. Lecture Video (5-1)
Lecture 4-2 6 / 11 / 26	My 2 Sentis Importing external pre-trained models for use in Unity: Unity's Sentis / Inference Engine System and Frontiers for AI in Game Dev. Lecture Video (4-2)
Lecture 4-1 6 / 9 / 26	YOU. ARE. THE. DATA. Tips and tricks for convergence in RL: parameter randomization, curriculum learning, cooperative play, self-play, and behavioral cloning. Lecture Video (4-1)
Lecture 3-2 6 / 4 / 26	School's In Session Overview of agentic Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, and Unity's ML-Agents. Lecture Video (3-2-1) Lecture Video (3-2-2)
Lecture 3-1 6 / 2 / 26	Brave New Worlds Gimme that PCG = Procedural Content Generation, Map Generation, NPC Generation. Lecture Video (3-1)
Lecture 2-2 5 / 28 / 26	That Which Glitters... Utility, MDPs, Expectimax, Beam Search, Priorities... and of course... Andrew Forney's Nano Nations. Lecture Video (2-2)
Lecture 2-1 5 / 26 / 26	GOAP is Dope All About Goal Oriented Action Planning. Lecture Video (2-1-1) Lecture Video (2-1-2)
Lecture 1-2 5 / 22 / 26	Best Behave... High vs. Low Level Actions / Planning, Behavior Graphs, Unity's Behavior Package. Lecture Video (1-2)
Lecture 1-1 5 / 20 / 26	The Tutorial Level Uniting in Unity: Review of Unity, C#, AI Concepts, Pathfinding, and the Unity Test Framework. Lecture Video (1-1)

Homework
Number	Day Assigned	Due Midnight
Final Project - Show Us Your Moves	5 / 19 / 26	(see spec for deadlines)
Assignment 1 - Waiting In Hell	5 / 19 / 26	5 / 28 / 26
Assignment 2 - SouflAI	5 / 26 / 26	6 / 4 / 26
Assignment 3 - Andrew Forney's Nano Nations	5 / 28 / 26	6 / 11 / 26
Assignment 4 - Cubepocalypse	6 / 4 / 26	6 / 18 / 26
[BONUS] Assignment 5 - Matches Made in Heaven	6 / 16 / 26	6 / 25 / 26

Supplementary Class Materials
Date	Item
6 / 11 / 26	Unity Sentis Samples Get your sample on.
6 / 2 / 26	Perlin Visualizer Helping you to see through the noise.
5 / 28 / 26	Nano Nations Demo Eat your heart out, Sid Meyer.
5 / 21 / 26	Behavior Graph Tutorial Don't like... go patrolling on my beach bro.
5 / 19 / 26	GitHub Classroom Tutorial Contains tutorials on how to use GitHub classroom and several popular IDEs to be used in this class.
5 / 19 / 26	Course Syllabus Contains vital information about the class, contact information, dates, homework, policies, and grading.