Game AI Pro: Collected Wisdom of Game AI Professionals [Hardback]

Edited by Rabin, this volume was produced by a wide assortment of people with backgrounds in artificial intelligence (AI), game design and programming in industry, and academic AI. The volume's emphasis is on using AI to create a compelling experience for the player. The volume is divided into 7 parts, General Wisdom, Architecture, Movement and Pathfinding, Strategy and Tactics, Agent Awareness and Knowledge Representation, Racing, and Odds and Ends. In the first section's three chapters the reader will find the following: an introduction to the concept of AI; a basic primer in neurology with mathematical descriptions of the various properties of neurons; and a chapter on generating and using randomness. The second part is designed to help the reader make decisions about what type of AI system to use. The rest of the book largely covers the various aspects of AI agents such as how they move, what strategies they follow and their knowledge systems. There is also discussion of some of the more theoretical aspects of AI such as Utility Theory. Section six is entirely devoted to the unique aspects of creating AIs for racing games. The last section covers varied topics like animal AI, use of general purpose GPU computing to exploit the massive parallelism of modern video cards, and third-person camera systems. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)