Game AI Uncovered

ISBN-13: 9781032348506 / Twarda / 2024 / 224 str.

Opis

Game AI Uncovered: Volume One kicks off a brand-new series of books that focus on the development of artificial intelligence in video games. This volume brings together the collected wisdom, ideas, tricks and cutting-edge techniques from 20 of the top game AI professionals and researchers, from around the world.

Spis treści

1. The Changing Landscape of AI for Game Development Dr Tommy Thompson. 2. Implementing an AI Framework in Unreal for Medium to Large Scale Numbers of Disparate AI in Hood: Outlaws and Legends Dr Allan Bruce. 3. Predicting When and Where to Intercept Players in Hood: Outlaws and Legends Dr Allan Bruce. 4. Getting Caught Off Guard: Situational Awareness in The Escapists 2 David Rogers. 5. Stitching it Together - The Enemies of Sackboy: A Big Adventure Huw Talliss. 6. Squad Behaviour Using a Task Stack Approach for Call of Duty: Strike Team Richard Bull. 7. Reactive Behaviour Trees Sarat Rallabandi & Paul Roberts. 8. Tailoring Racing AI to the Genre Andy Brown. 9. Believable Routes: A Pathfinding Acceptability Metric Paul Roberts. 10. AI Under Lockdown: Various Approaches to NPC Tethering Laurent Couvidou. 11. Low-Cost, Mutable Path-Planning Spaces Steven Dalton     . 12. Auto Generating Navigation Link Data Dale Green. 13. Fluid Movement Johan Holthausen. 14. Combining Behaviour and Animation Systems in Luna Abyss John Reynolds. 15. How to make your AI Fireproof: 25 Years of AI Firefighting Andrea Schiel. 16. Pedal Control for Cars - How to Maintain Speed, Change Speed, and Stop at a Point Dr Nic Melder. 17. Bots for Testing Jonas Gillberg. 18. Infinite Axis Utility System and Hierarchical State Machines David Wooldridge. 19. Tactical Positioning Through Environmental Analysis Michele Ermacora. 20. Level of Detail: Saving Crucial CPU Time Bruno Rebaque. 21. Agent Coordination: Designing a Generalised Coordination Layer Dr Aitor Santamaría Ibirika.            

 

 

O autorze

Paul Roberts is a Lead AI programmer at Sumo Digital. He has a Master’s degree in Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence, where he focused on pathfinding and developed the DRS algorithm and ways to test the believability of generated paths. He has worked for a variety of studios in the UK from Team17, Traveller’s Tales, Activision, and some smaller indie studios. Paul also managed the Games Programming department at Staffordshire University for several years where he oversaw the development of new degree programs that saw a close collaboration with the games industry. Paul has written a number of books, some fiction, others academic, the latest of which is ‘Artificial Intelligence in Games’ published by CRC Press in 2022.