Clyde: A deep reinforcement learning DOOM playing agent

In this paper we present the use of deep reinforcement learn-ing techniques in the context of playing partially observablemulti-agent 3D games. These techniques have traditionallybeen applied to fully observable 2D environments, or navigation tasks in 3D environments. We show the performanceof Clyde in comparison to other competitors within the con-text of the ViZDOOM competition that saw 9 bots competeagainst each other in DOOM death matches. Clyde managedto achieve 3rd place in the ViZDOOM competition held at theIEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games2016. Clyde performed very well considering its relative sim-plicity and the fact that we deliberately avoided a high levelof customisation to keep the algorithm generic.