Game AI Pro: Collected Wisdom of Game AI Professionals by Steven Rabin

By Steven Rabin

General Wisdom
What Is online game AI?
Kevin Dill
Informing video game AI throughout the research of Neurology
Brett Laming
Advanced Randomness suggestions for video game AI: Gaussian Randomness, Filtered Randomness, and Perlin Noise
Steve Rabin, Jay Goldblatt, and Fernando Silva

Architecture
Behavior choice Algorithms: an summary
Michael Dawe, Steve Gargolinski, Luke Dicken, Troy Humphreys, and Dave Mark
Structural Architecture—Common tips of the exchange
Kevin Dill
The habit Tree Starter package
Alex J. Champandard and Philip Dunstan
Real-World habit bushes in Script
Michael Dawe
Simulating habit bushes: A habit Tree/Planner Hybrid method
Daniel Hilburn
An creation to application thought
David “Rez” Graham
Building application judgements into Your present habit Tree
Bill Merrill
Reactivity and Deliberation in Decision-Making structures
Carle Côté
Exploring HTN Planners via instance
Troy Humphreys
Hierarchical Plan-Space making plans for Multiunit wrestle Maneuvers
William van der Sterren
Phenomenal AI Level-of-Detail keep an eye on with the LOD dealer
Ben Sunshine-Hill
Runtime Compiled C++ for speedy AI improvement
Doug Binks, Matthew Jack, and may Wilson
Plumbing the Forbidden Depths: Scripting and AI
Mike Lewis

Movement and Pathfinding
Pathfinding structure Optimizations
Steve Rabin and Nathan Sturtevant
Choosing a seek area illustration
Nathan R. Sturtevant
Creating High-Order Navigation Meshes via Iterative Wavefront part Expansions
D. Hunter Hale and G. Michael Youngblood
Precomputed Pathfinding for giant and certain Worlds on mmog Servers
Fabien Gravot, Takanori Yokoyama, and Youichiro Miyake
Techniques for Formation circulate utilizing guidance Circles
Stephen Bjore
Collision Avoidance for Preplanned Locomotion
Bobby Anguelov
Crowd Pathfinding and guidance utilizing circulate box Tiles
Elijah Emerson
Efficient Crowd Simulation for cellular video games
Graham Pentheny
Animation-Driven Locomotion with Locomotion making plans
Jarosław Ciupiński

Strategy and Tactics
Tactical place choice: An structure and question Language
Matthew Jack
Tactical Pathfinding on a NavMesh
Daniel Brewer
Beyond the Kung-Fu Circle: a versatile method for dealing with NPC assaults
Michael Dawe
Hierarchical AI for Multiplayer Bots in Killzone three
Remco Straatman, Tim Verweij, Alex Champandard, Robert Morcus, and Hylke Kleve
Using Neural Networks to regulate Agent probability reaction
Michael Robbins

Agent understanding and data Representation
Crytek’s aim Tracks notion procedure
Rich Welsh
How to seize a Ninja: NPC knowledge in a second Stealth Platformer
Brook Miles
Asking the surroundings clever Questions
Mieszko Zielinski
A uncomplicated and powerful wisdom illustration procedure
Phil Carlisle
A uncomplicated and sensible Social Dynamics approach
Phil Carlisle
Breathing existence into Your historical past Characters
David “Rez” Graham
Alibi new release: Fooling all of the avid gamers for all time
Ben Sunshine-Hill

Racing
An structure evaluate for AI in Racing Games
Simon Tomlinson and Nic Melder
Representing and using a Race tune for AI managed autos
Simon Tomlinson and Nic Melder
Racing car keep watch over structures utilizing PID Controllers
Nic Melder and Simon Tomlinson
The warmth imaginative and prescient process for Racing AI: a singular solution to verify optimum music Positioning
Nic Melder
A Rubber-Banding approach for Gameplay and Race Management
Nic Melder

Odds and Ends
An structure for Character-Rich Social Simulation
Michael Mateas and Josh McCoy
A Control-Based structure for Animal habit
Michael Ramsey
Introduction to GPGPU for AI
Conan Bourke and Tomasz Bednarz
Creating Dynamic Soundscapes utilizing a man-made Sound fashion designer
Simon Franco
Tips and methods for a strong Third-Person digital camera approach
Eric Martel
Implementing N-Grams for participant Prediction, Procedural iteration, and Stylized AI
Joseph Vasquez II

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