Author : Neil Kirby
Publisher : Course Technology
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 22,75 MB
Release : 2010-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781598639988
Teaches beginners how to craft artificial intelligence in a game environment, providing hands-on AI projects based on small understandable games, all of which can be completed using tools that are available for free online. Original.
Author : David M. Bourg
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 37,26 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780596005559
From the author of "Physics for Game Developers," comes a new, non-threatening introduction to the complex subject of game programming.
Author : Mat Buckland
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 16,86 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781556220784
This book describes in detail many of the AI techniques used in modern computer games, explicity shows how to implement these practical techniques within the framework of several game developers with a practical foundation to game AI.
Author : Alex J. Champandard
Publisher : New Riders
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 30,32 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781592730049
With game players expecting greater intelligence, efficiency, and realism with non-player characters, AI plays an ever-increasing important role in game development. This is a tremendous challenge for game developers in methodology, software design, and programming. Creating autonomous synthetic creatures that can adapt in games requires a different kind of understanding of AI than the classical approach used by current game programmers. The Nouvelle Game AI approach presented in this book focuses on creating embodied "animats" that behave in an intelligent and realistic manner. In particular, learning AI is generating much interest among the game development community, as these modern techniques can be used to optimize the development process. Book jacket.
Author : Ian Millington
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 997 pages
File Size : 24,88 MB
Release : 2019-03-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 1351053280
AI is an integral part of every video game. This book helps professionals keep up with the constantly evolving technological advances in the fast growing game industry and equips students with up-to-date information they need to jumpstart their careers. This revised and updated Third Edition includes new techniques, algorithms, data structures and representations needed to create powerful AI in games. Key Features A comprehensive professional tutorial and reference to implement true AI in games Includes new exercises so readers can test their comprehension and understanding of the concepts and practices presented Revised and updated to cover new techniques and advances in AI Walks the reader through the entire game AI development process
Author : Georgios N. Yannakakis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 29,41 MB
Release : 2018-02-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3319635190
This is the first textbook dedicated to explaining how artificial intelligence (AI) techniques can be used in and for games. After introductory chapters that explain the background and key techniques in AI and games, the authors explain how to use AI to play games, to generate content for games and to model players. The book will be suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses in games, artificial intelligence, design, human-computer interaction, and computational intelligence, and also for self-study by industrial game developers and practitioners. The authors have developed a website (http://www.gameaibook.org) that complements the material covered in the book with up-to-date exercises, lecture slides and reading.
Author : Micael DaGraca
Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 16,75 MB
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1787129462
Jump into the world of Game AI development About This Book Move beyond using libraries to create smart game AI, and create your own AI projects from scratch Implement the latest algorithms for AI development and in-game interaction Customize your existing game AI and make it better and more efficient to improve your overall game performance Who This Book Is For This book is for game developers with a basic knowledge of game development techniques and some basic programming techniques in C# or C++. What You Will Learn Get to know the basics of how to create different AI for different type of games Know what to do when something interferes with the AI choices and how the AI should behave if that happens Plan the interaction between the AI character and the environment using Smart Zones or Triggering Events Use animations correctly, blending one animation into another and rather than stopping one animation and starting another Calculate the best options for the AI to move using Pruning Strategies, Wall Distances, Map Preprocess Implementation, and Forced Neighbours Create Theta algorithms to the AI to find short and realistic looking paths Add many characters into the same scene and make them behave like a realistic crowd In Detail The book starts with the basics examples of AI for different game genres and directly jumps into defining the probabilities and possibilities of the AI character to determine character movement. Next, you'll learn how AI characters should behave within the environment created. Moving on, you'll explore how to work with animations. You'll also plan and create pruning strategies, and create Theta algorithms to find short and realistic looking game paths. Next, you'll learn how the AI should behave when there is a lot of characters in the same scene. You'll explore which methods and algorithms, such as possibility maps, Forward Chaining Plan, Rete Algorithm, Pruning Strategies, Wall Distances, and Map Preprocess Implementation should be used on different occasions. You'll discover how to overcome some limitations, and how to deliver a better experience to the player. By the end of the book, you think differently about AI. Style and approach The book has a step-by-step tutorial style approach. The algorithms are explained by implementing them in #.
Author : Ian Millington
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 38,66 MB
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1000475514
What is artificial intelligence? How is artificial intelligence used in game development? Game development lives in its own technical world. It has its own idioms, skills, and challenges. That’s one of the reasons games are so much fun to work on. Each game has its own rules, its own aesthetic, and its own trade-offs, and the hardware it will run on keeps changing. AI for Games is designed to help you understand one element of game development: artificial intelligence (AI).
Author : Diego Pérez Liébana
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 31,14 MB
Release : 2019-10-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1681736454
Research on general video game playing aims at designing agents or content generators that can perform well in multiple video games, possibly without knowing the game in advance and with little to no specific domain knowledge. The general video game AI framework and competition propose a challenge in which researchers can test their favorite AI methods with a potentially infinite number of games created using the Video Game Description Language. The open-source framework has been used since 2014 for running a challenge. Competitors around the globe submit their best approaches that aim to generalize well across games. Additionally, the framework has been used in AI modules by many higher-education institutions as assignments, or as proposed projects for final year (undergraduate and Master's) students and Ph.D. candidates. The present book, written by the developers and organizers of the framework, presents the most interesting highlights of the research performed by the authors during these years in this domain. It showcases work on methods to play the games, generators of content, and video game optimization. It also outlines potential further work in an area that offers multiple research directions for the future.
Author : Steven Rabin
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 17,12 MB
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1482254808
Game AI Pro2: Collected Wisdom of Game AI Professionals presents cutting-edge tips, tricks, and techniques for artificial intelligence (AI) in games, drawn from developers of shipped commercial games as well as some of the best-known academics in the field. It contains knowledge, advice, hard-earned wisdom, and insights gathered from across the com
