Winning Isn't Everything: Enhancing Game Development with Intelligent Agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.10545

Electronic Arts; case studies include The Sims Mobile career balancing with A* and evolution strategies; deep RL needed heavy tuning per target game, so effort scaled roughly linearly with the number of games.

Agent-based automated playtesting and balancing, Deep reinforcement learning policies for NPC opponents and navigation