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Artificial Intelligence for Games Hardcover – 18 Sept. 2009

by Ian Millington (Author), John Funge (Author)

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Creating robust artificial intelligence is one of the greatest challenges for game developers, yet the commercial success of a game is often dependent upon the quality of the AI. In this book, Ian Millington brings extensive professional experience to the problem of improving the quality of AI in games. He describes numerous examples from real games and explores the underlying ideas through detailed case studies. He goes further to introduce many techniques little used by developers today. The book's associated web site contains a library of C++ source code and demonstration programs, and a complete commercial source code library of AI algorithms and techniques.

"Artificial Intelligence for Games - 2nd edition" will be highly useful to academics teaching courses on game AI, in that it includes exercises with each chapter. It will also include new and expanded coverage of the following: AI-oriented gameplay; Behavior driven AI; Casual games (puzzle games).

Key Features

* The first comprehensive, professional tutorial and reference to implement true AI in games written by an engineer with extensive industry experience.
* Walks through the entire development process from beginning to end.
* Includes examples from over 100 real games, 10 in-depth case studies, and web site with sample code.

ISBN-10

0123747317
ISBN-13

978-0123747310
Edition

2nd
Publisher

CRC Press
Publication date

18 Sept. 2009
Language

English
Dimensions

19.69 x 3.81 x 24.13 cm
Print length

896 pages
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"Ian Millington's book is a comprehensive reference to the most widely used techniques in game AI today. Any game developer working on AI will learn something from this book, and game producers should make sure their AI programmers have a copy." -Dr. Ian Lane Davis, Mad Doc Software

About the Author

Ian Millington is a partner of IPR Ventures, a consulting company developing next-generation AI technologies for entertainment, modeling, and simulation. Previously he founded Mindlathe Ltd, the largest specialist AI middleware company in computer games, working with on a huge range of game genres and technologies. He has a long background in AI, including PhD research in complexity theory and natural computing. He has published academic and professional papers and articles on topics ranging from paleontology to hypertext.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ CRC Press; 2nd edition (18 Sept. 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 896 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0123747317
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0123747310
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.69 x 3.81 x 24.13 cm

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cristian c

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 January 2015

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Useful book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 November 2014

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I haven't read it from cover to cover, but as a reference book I found it useful

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Dr. Paul Smith

Great Book as an introduction to Game AI

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 February 2013

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I use this as one of my core books for Game AI modules I lecture on. Very good introduction to game AI with plenty of good examples for techniques.

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Tommy

A good book, but vitally scarred by referenced yet missing source code and examples

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 July 2015

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I loved the book, but I really can't give it the score it deserves because many of the online resources (such as example applications and source code) are completely missing.

The book itself is great, and gives a good broad overview of many concepts in Game AI. However, it often defers to the online resources for many examples. A lot of the concepts portrayed in the book are highly visual and hard to understand without seeing, however the majority of the examples programs are missing from the Github. Worse even, for any non-trivial source code the book will instead refer you to the website to see the code, leaving some important concepts without full implementation details.

I attempted to contact both the authors through multiple avenues to see this issue amended, but was left without a reply. Aside from my contact atttempts, on the Github you can also see a couple of issues listed by others about missing examples and/or source: https://github.com/idmillington/aicore/issues

Those issues only mention a few of the missing resources (and are left without a reply...), but in reality, the majority (at least 60% or 70%) of source and examples are missing. I can only imagine this happened when the codebase migrated to Github as mentioned on the ai4g.com website, over 4 years ago.

I'd love to give the book a higher review, but I simply cannot when vital components are missing and attempts at reporting this seemingly ignored by the authors.

If these issues are amended I will modify my review to take this into account.

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Mrs. G. Green

Excellent Book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 July 2011

This is an excellent book, i'm reading it to get ahead for next year on games programming and doing artificial intelligence for one of my modules. The book goes in-depth into a lot of subjects and it will give you a very good understanding of how AI works in most modern games.

Definitely recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn AI. Also the code samples you get are very good aswell as pseudo code for all of the subjects.

Only concern is sometimes it can go abit to much indepth and it can get abit boring but mostly good read.

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Andrealinia

Great starting place

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 October 2011

I bought this book in August for help on my final year university project. All I knew from the offset was that I planned on doing something related to AI. Having never been taught AI on my course it was hard to know where to begin but this book gave a great overview on so many different algorithms and areas (pathfinding, behaviour, strategy etc.) that I managed to pick a project idea and get a basic start on my research.

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Kimo

Amateurish.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 January 2012

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The authour lack an ability to convey simple ideas. A relatively simple idea
is made harder by his inability to express it in simple language. At times it
very amateurish in his attemp. The book is also riddled with many errors.

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