AI Game Engine Programming, Second Edition eBook

Content Overview:

Chapters 1–3 provides an overall look at game AI, covers the basic terminology that will be used throughout the book, looks at some of the underlying concepts of game AI, and dissects the parts of a game AI engine. Chapters 4–14 cover specific game genres and how they use the differing AI paradigms. Although the book cannot be all-inclusive (by detailing how each and every game “did it”), it does discuss the more common solutions to the problems posed by games of each genre. Chapters 15–21 provides the actual code implementations for the basic AI techniques, and Chapters 22–24 covers the more advanced ones. In the last four chapters, a variety of concepts and concerns are broken down, dealing with real game AI development: general design and development issues, distributed AI as an overall paradigm that can help with the organization of almost any AI engine, debugging AI systems, and the future of AI