Description
Steve Rabin’s Game AI Pro 360: Guide to Tactics and Strategy gathers all the cutting-edge information from his previous three Game AI Pro volumes into a convenient single source anthology that covers game AI strategy and tactics. This volume is complete with articles by leading game AI programmers that focus largely on combat decisions made in a wide variety of genres such as RTS, RPG, MOBA, strategy and tower defense games.
Key Features
- Provides real-life case studies of game AI in published commercial games
- Material by top developers and researchers in Game AI
- Downloadable demos and/or source code available online
Table of Contents
About the Editor
About the Contributors
Introduction
1 Tactical Position Selection: An Architecture and Query Language
Matthew Jack
2 Tactical Pathfinding on a NavMesh
Daniel Brewer
3 Beyond the Kung-Fu Circle: A Flexible System for Managing NPC Attacks
Michael Dawe
4 Hierarchical AI for Multiplayer Bots in Killzone
Remco Straatman, Tim Verweij, Alex Champandard, Robert Morcus, and Hylke Kleve
5 Using Neural Networks to Control Agent Threat Response
Michael Robbins
6 Looking for Trouble: Making NPCs Search Realistically
Rich Welsh
7 Modeling Perception and Awareness in Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Blacklist
Martin Walsh
8 Escaping the Grid: Infinite-Resolution Influence Mapping
Mike Lewis
9 Modular Tactical Influence Maps
Dave Mark
10 Spatial Reasoning for Strategic Decision Making
Kevin Dill
11 Extending the Spatial Coverage of a Voxel-Based Navigation Mesh
Kevin A. Kirst
12 Being Where It Counts: Telling Paragon Bots Where to Go
Mieszko Zieliński
13 Combat Outcome Prediction for Real-Time Strategy Games
Marius Stanescu, Nicolas A. Barriga, and Michael Buro
14 Guide to Effective Auto-Generated Spatial Queries
Eric Johnson
15 The Role of Time in Spatio-Temporal Reasoning: Three Examples from Tower Defense
Baylor Wetzel and Kyle Anderson
16 Pitfalls and Solutions When Using Monte Carlo Tree Search for Strategy and Tactical Games
Gijs-Jan Roelofs
17 Petri Nets and AI Arbitration
Sergio Ocio Barriales
18 Hierarchical Portfolio Search in Prismata
David Churchill and Michael Buro
