Game AI pro 3 : collected wisdom of game AI professionals / edited by Steve Rabin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rabin, Steve, editor.

CRC Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial intelligence.

Video games--Design.

Video games.

Video games--Programming.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (541 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, an imprint of A K Peters/CRC Press, 2017.

Summary:

Game AI Pro3: Collected Wisdom of Game AI Professionals presents state-of-the-art tips, tricks, and techniques drawn from developers of shipped commercial games as well as some of the best-known academics in the field. This book acts as a toolbox of proven techniques coupled with the newest advances in game AI. These techniques can be applied to almost any game and include topics such as behavior trees, utility theory, path planning, character behavior, and tactical reasoning.

Contents:

section I General Wisdom

chapter 1 The Illusion of Intelligence / Steve Rabin

chapter 2 Creating the Past, Present, and Future with Random Walks / John Manslow

chapter 3 Logging Visualization in FINAL FANTASY XV / Matthew W. Johnson

chapter 4 What You See Is Not What You Get / Baylor Wetzel

chapter 5 Six Factory System Tricks for Extensibility and Library Reuse / Kevin Dill

chapter 6 Debugging AI with Instant In-Game Scrubbing / David Young

chapter 7 But, It Worked on My Machine! How to Build Robust AI for Your Game / Sergio Ocio Barriales

section II Architecture

chapter 8 Modular AI / Kevin Dill

chapter 9 Overcoming Pitfalls in Behavior Tree Design / Anthony Francis

chapter 10 From Behavior to Animation

A Reactive AI Architecture for Networked First-Person Shooter Games / Sumeet Jakatdar

chapter 11 A Character Decision-Making System for FINAL FANTASY XV by Combining Behavior Trees and State Machines / Youichiro Miyake

chapter 12 A Reusable, Light-Weight Finite-State Machine / David “Rez” Graham

chapter 13 Choosing Effective Utility-Based Considerations / Mike Lewis

chapter 14 Combining Scripted Behavior with Game Tree Search for Stronger, More Robust Game AI / Barriga Nicolas A.

section III Movement and Pathfinding

chapter 15 Steering against Complex Vehicles in Assassins Creed Syndicate / Eric Martel

chapter 16 Predictive Animation Control Using Simulations and Fitted Models / Ingimar Hólm Guðmundsson

chapter 17 Fast Cars, Big City

The AI of Driver San Francisco / Chris Jenner

chapter 18 A Unified Theory of Locomotion / Graham Pentheny

chapter 19 RVO and ORCA

How They Really Work / Ben Sunshine-Hill

chapter 20 Optimization for Smooth Paths / Mark Langerak

chapter 21 3D Flight Navigation Using Sparse Voxel Octrees / Daniel Brewer

chapter 22 Faster A* with Goal Bounding / Steve Rabin

chapter 23 Faster Dijkstra Search on Uniform Cost Grids / Nathan R. Sturtevant

section IV Tactics and Strategy

chapter 24 Being Where It Counts

Telling Paragon Bots Where to Go / Mieszko Zielin ́ski

chapter 25 Combat Outcome Prediction for Real-Time Strategy Games / Marius Stanescu

chapter 26 Guide to Effective Auto-Generated Spatial Queries / Eric Johnson

chapter 27 The Role of Time in Spatio-Temporal Reasoning

Three Examples from Tower Defense / Baylor Wetzel

chapter 28 Pitfalls and Solutions When Using Monte Carlo Tree Search for Strategy and Tactical Games / Gijs-Jan Roelofs

chapter 29 Petri Nets and AI Arbitration / Sergio Ocio Barriales

chapter 30 Hierarchical Portfolio Search in Prismata / David Churchill

section V Character Behavior

chapter 31 Behavior Decision System

Dragon Age Inquisitions Utility Scoring Architecture / Sebastian Hanlon

chapter 32 Paragon Bots

A Bag of Tricks / Mieszko Zielin ski

chapter 33 Using Your Combat AI Accuracy to Balance Difficulty / Sergio Ocio Barriales

chapter 34 1000 NPCs at 60 FPS / Robert Zubek

chapter 35 Ambient Interactions

Improving Believability by Leveraging Rule-Based AI / Hendrik Skubch

chapter 36 Stochastic Grammars

Not Just for Words! / Mike Lewis

chapter 37 Simulating Character Knowledge Phenomena in Talk of the Town / James Ryan

section VI Odds and Ends

chapter 38 Procedural Level and Story Generation Using Tag-Based Content Selection / Jurie Horneman

chapter 39 Recommendation Systems in Games / Ben G. Weber

chapter 40 Vintage Random Number Generators / Éric Jacopin

chapter 41 Leveraging Plausibility Orderings to Achieve Extremely Efficient Data Compression / Rollason Jeff

chapter 42 Building Custom Static Checkers Using Declarative Programming / Ian Horswill.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781351647748

1351647741

9781315151700

1315151707

9781498742597

1498742599

OCLC:

1047899333