AI for Game Developers

Creating Intelligent Behavior in Games

David M. Bourg, Glenn Seeman - Collection Game Programming

371 pages, parution le 06/01/2005

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Résumé

Have game characters that won't chase? Prey that runs into obstacles? Sick of non-player characters that don't move as a group? Now advanced artificial intelligence (AI) game techniques to combat such issues are within your grasp. Whether you're new to game programming or you're an experienced game programmer who needs to get up to speed quickly on AI techniques, you'll find AI for Game Developers to be the perfect starting point for understanding and applying AI techniques to your games. This book will provide you with usable, advanced techniques that you can apply to your games right now. If you've wanted to use AI to extend the play-life of your games, make them more challenging, and, most importantly, make them more fun, then this book is for you.

David M. Bourg (author of the successful Physics for Game Developers) and Glenn Seemann introduce you to techniques such as finite state machines, fuzzy logic, and neural networks in straightforward, easy-to-understand language, supported with code samples throughout the book (written in C/C++). From basic game behaviors such as chasing and evading, pattern movement, and flocking, to anticipating player moves, this book shows you how to apply AI techniques to give your game characters believable intelligence. These techniques include a diverse mix of deterministic (traditional) and non-deterministic (newer) AI techniques aimed squarely at beginner AI developers.

L'auteur - David M. Bourg

As a naval architect and marine engineer, David M. Bourg performs computer simulations and develops analysis tools that measure such things as hovercraft performance and the effect of waves on the motion of ships and boats. He teaches at the college level in the areas of ship design, construction and analysis. On occasion, David also lectures at high schools on topics such as naval architecture and software development. In addition to David's practical engineering background, he's professionally involved in computer game development and consulting through his company, Crescent Vision Interactive. Current projects include a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, several Java-based multiplayer games, and the porting of Hasbro's "Breakout" to the Macintosh.

L'auteur - Glenn Seeman

Glenn Seeman is a veteran game programmer with over a dozen games to his credit, for Mac and Windows systems. He's a co-founder with David Bourg of Crescent Vision Interactive, a game development company specializing in cross-platform games.

Sommaire

Introduction to Game AI
Chasing and Evading
Pattern Movement
Flocking
Potential Function-Based Movement
Basic Pathfinding and Waypoints
A* Pathfinding
Scripted Al and Scripting Engines
Finite State Machines
Fuzzy Logic
Rule-Based Al
Basic Probability
Decisions Under Uncertainty-Bayesian Techniques
Neural Networks
Genetic Algorithms
Appendix: Vector Operations

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	O'Reilly
Auteur(s)	David M. Bourg, Glenn Seeman
Collection	Game Programming
Parution	06/01/2005
Nb. de pages	371
Format	17,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	643g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780596005559
ISBN13	978-0-596-00555-9