MOBA: a New Arena for Game AI
  Games have always been popular testbeds for Artificial Intelligence (AI). In
the last decade, we have seen the rise of the Multiple Online Battle Arena
(MOBA) games, which are the most played games nowadays. In spite of this, there
are few works that explore MOBA as a testbed for AI Research. In this paper we
present and discuss the main features and opportunities offered by MOBA games
to Game AI Research. We describe the various challenges faced along the game
and also propose a discrete model that can be used to better understand and
explore the game. With this, we aim to encourage the use of MOBA as a novel
research platform for Game AI.
