| Description |
1 online resource (540 pages) : 136 illustrations |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Access |
Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK). WlAbNL |
| Subject |
Artificial intelligence.
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Video games -- Design.
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Video games -- Programming.
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Artificial Intelligence |
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Intelligence artificielle. |
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Jeux vidéo -- Conception. |
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Jeux vidéo -- Programmation. |
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artificial intelligence. |
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Artificial intelligence |
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Computer games -- Design |
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Video games -- Programming |
| Added Author |
Rabin, Steve, editor.
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CRC Press.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781498742580 |
| ISBN |
9781315151700 (e-book ; PDF) |
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1315151707 |
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9781498742597 (e-book) |
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1498742599 |
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9781351647748 (EPUB) |
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1351647741 (EPUB) |
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(hardback) |
| Standard No. |
10.4324/9781315151700 doi |
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