Dot - Bot Record

Uses AI

MIT

A Godot addon that extends `dot-bot` by recording player pathways and more at a sampled rate that NPCs can then use. This is an idea I thought of when determining how to get bots to play Surf Combat correctly in Arena.

This is the bot-record asset for TMC's Dot collection. It records what players do, as episodes against a schema the game declares, for bots to learn from.

All dot-* assets are open source under the MIT license; see dot-bootstrap to clone and link them. Treat this as partially tested.

What it does

A game registers a DotBotDemoSchema per kind of episode, then calls begin, sample and end on a DotBotDemoRecorder. The recorder samples at a rate that is high while a key has few recordings and falls to a base rate once it has enough, queues finished episodes, and writes them in time-budgeted batches to a store: JSON files (default), SQL through dot-sql (by duck typing), or memory. Nothing identifying is kept. It is on by default (bot_record 0 switches it off).

Getting started

Copy addons/dot_bot_record/ and dot-core's addons/dot_core/ into your project and enable the plugin. dot-core is the only dependency. See docs/demonstration-recorder.md.