George Hewitt

Systems and Gameplay Designer

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FrostBreak

2025

AI Design AI Programming RTS City Builder
Solo Project

An RTS game, played by AI.

AI agents handle individual villager actions - keeping them alive, fullfilling duties - as well as handling decisions for the villlage as a whole - when to build, how to assign jobs to villagers.

Platform
PC

Using
Unity
C# Programming

Available

Unity Play

Goals

Develop systems and mechanics, including villager needs, resource economy and progression.

Develop proficiency in AI using C#, creating systems to handle individual agents and groups of agents.

Implement about Dynamic Lighting and Procedural Generation.

Inspiration

Outlanders

Beginner-friendly, scaled-back city builder systems.
Warm colour-scheme, friendly art-style.

Frost Punk

Temperature based needs and growth.

Features

Agent Actions (using GOAP)

- Maintain needs
- Fulfill village tasks

UI

- Village information
- Agent needs
- Agent current goal and task

Build to Grow

- Build and Upgrade Houses
- Build Mines
- Build Farms

Resources

Economy
- Collect resources (wood, stone, food)
- Build stores of resources
- Spend resources to build and grow

Mechanics
- Mines are build in areas with higher stone count and become ‘spent’ when fully collected
- Farms are built in areas of cleared and fertile land
- Food naturally grows in wooded areas
- Food grows fastest on farmland
- Houses, stored food and farms are needed for population growth

GOAP In Action

Some of the Goals and Actions driving the village’s collective decision making.

Some of the Goals and Actions driving the villager’s behaviour.

Data caching is used to optimise GOAP.

Sensor are updated periodically and at appropriate events.

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