Programming Game AI by Example

Mat Buckland

ISBN 10: 1556220782 / ISBN 13: 9781556220784

Published by Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2004

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pp. xxi + 495 Illus.

Seller Inventory # 6709104

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Programming Game AI by Example
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1556220782
• ISBN 13: 9781556220784
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Programming Game AI by Example provides a comprehensive and practical introduction to the “bread and butter” AI techniques used by the game development industry, leading the reader through the process of designing, programming, and implementing intelligent agents for action games using the C++ programming language. Techniques covered include state- and goal-based behavior, inter-agent communication, individual and group steering behaviors, team AI, graph theory, search, path planning and optimization, triggers, scripting, scripted finite state machines, perceptual modeling, goal evaluation, goal arbitration, and fuzzy logic.

About the Author

Mat Buckland is a freelance programmer and writer. He became interested in AI when he coded Waddington's Monopoly for the ZX Spectrum way back in the '80s, and over the years his passion for making computers “think” has never faded. He is the author of the book AI Techniques for Game Programming and the founder of ai-junkie.com, a popular web site that specializes in AI tutorials. He is also a member of the AI Interface Standards Committee and co-hosts the AI round table at the European Game Developers Conference.