AI Game Programming Wisdom 2 (Hardcover)

AI Game Programming Wisdom 2, the second volume in this cutting-edge series, is packed with all new tricks, techniques, algorithms, architectures, and philosophies all written by industry experts! The wealth of knowledge and expertise in this volume is sure to surpass your expectations. As with the first volume, this book is designed to provide practical advice for building state-of-the-art game AI for commercial games; however, it also strives to help you look forward to leading-edge techniques that will be critical in future explorations.

AI Game Programming Wisdom 2 provides advances, discoveries, and triumphs that will influence and drive game AI for the next decade. The breadth of experience and diverse backgrounds of the authors make this a truly global, cross-sectional resource for game AI. The book is divided into twelve comprehensive sections, including an all new speech recognition and dialogue section. There is also coverage of a wider variety of game genres and a cumulative index is included for easy cross referencing between volumes.

This new volume alone is an indispensable tool, but together with volume 1, these books form a remarkable collection that no game AI programmer should be without!

SECTIONS

• General Wisdom
• Pathfinding and Movement
• Group Movement, Tactics, and Planning
• AI Animation Control
• State Machines
• Architecture
• FPS, RTS, and Strategy AI
• Racing and Sports AI
• Scripting
• Learning
• Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks
• Speech Recognition and Dialogue

On the CD-ROM (WINDOWS)

Includes source code and demos to augment the articles, as well as tutorials, Web resources, complementary articles, and color images.