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AI Game Engine Programming Paperback – December 22, 2008

by Brian Schwab (Author)

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A fully revised update to the first edition, "AI Game Engine Programming, Second Edition" provides game developers with the tools and information they need to create modern game AI engines. Covering the four principle elements of game artificial intelligence, the book takes you from theory to actual game development, going beyond merely discussing how a technique might be used. Beginning with a clear definition of game AI, you'll learn common terminology, the underlying concepts of AI, and you'll explore the different parts of the game AI engine. You'll then take a look at AI design considerations, solutions, and even common pitfalls genre-by-genre, covering the majority of modern game genres and examining concrete examples of AI used in actual commercial games. Finally, you'll study actual code implementations for each AI technique presented, both in skeletal form and as part of a real-world example, to learn how it works in an actual game engine and how it can be optimized in the future. Written for experienced game developers with a working knowledge of C++, data structures, and object oriented programming, "AI Game Engine Programming, Second Edition" will expand your AI knowledge and skills from start to finish.

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About the Author

An industry professional for over 17 years, Brian Schwab has worked on a huge variety of games at a number of different companies, always with a focus on gameplay, AI, and design. The author of AI Game Engine Programming, Brian has also given numerous talks at AIIDE (for which he also serves on the board) and GDC.

Paperback: 736 pages
Publisher: Cengage Learning; 2 edition (December 22, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1584505729
ISBN-13: 978-1584505723
Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 1.8 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
Average Customer Review: 13 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,626,725 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1762 in Books > Computers & Technology > Games & Strategy Guides > Game Programming
- #30457 in Books > Computers & Technology > Programming
- #249610 in Books > Reference

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Kristjan

Good book for beginning AI programming

June 9, 2009

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This is a good book if you are a relatively experienced programmer who is beginning game programming (like me) or if you are already somewhat experienced in basic game development and simply want to improve your AI knowledge. The book covers loads of different AI patterns for all sorts of different situations. Some of these I was familiar with such as Finite State Machines but there were plenty of others that I hadn't taken a look at before but which am now using a lot (thanks to this book) such as Fuzzy State Machines. I didn't really have any trouble with the graphics code being written in OpenGL which is my library of choice since I do a lot of work on non-Microsoft systems. If you are also in the process of learning OpenGL, for example because you want to write games software for mobile platforms such as the iPhone/iPod or Android, this is actually a nice bonus. Mind you the Apple products at least use OpenGL ES which differs slightly from OpenGL but this doesn't detract from the value of the sample OpenGL code provided here. I like the way the author demonstrates his teachings with quite comprehensive example projects unlike some other programming books I have read where the authors provided a lot less code. In the end there are few things that you learn from as well as reading raw sources. Quite a lot of the source code is written in C++ but then again I didn't buy the book for C++ lessons, I bought it for the design patterns it covers and these are easily implemented in other languages. The one criticism I have of this book is that after only a few months of use the binding is already splitting.

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December 5, 2010

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This book is awful, i have read this as well as the earlier book by the same name from this author. This book is 75 percent completely useless filler, not to mention the code examples are overflowing with unimaginable bugs (functions definitions with no return types, basic logic and syntax errors and much worse), obviously they did not bother even trying to compile any of them and you will spend a significant amount of time fixing all these issues. This is not worth a purchase at any price greater than 3 dollars, you are better of searching google for information from various websites if you need a book any alternative is better.

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April 7, 2015

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great book

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No real meat and potatoes, but many appetizers.

August 22, 2005

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First, I would like to address the comment a reviewer made about the book being no good because it utilizes OpenGL.

This is a book on AI, the AI concepts and code can be implemented using any rendering API (or none at all) to visualize their activity. OpenGL and DirectX have as much to do with AI as car engine maintenance has to do with cooking a good lobster neuberg. The fact that the reviewer cannot make this distinction is sadly telling. Some people want all the work done for them. If you are that type, don't bother with programming.

Second, the reviewer who said that this book is too scattered is right. It tries to do too many things and ends up doing none of them extremely well. It does, however, have a few good code samples and can be used as an introductory book on the subject.

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December 2, 2010

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well as i skimmed through the book it was all good. i wish there was more examples. i haven't checked out the cd yet but other than that i still love the book. just one thing though. when i got mines it sort of had a big torn on the book so it looked like two different books flapping together. other than that the book was still in mint condition.

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K. Lau

Great Book in Game AI

April 27, 2005

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This is a good book that talks about game AI. The author describe most of the game AI topics in this book. If you interest in game AI. I highly suggest you to have this book on your bookself.

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January 31, 2005

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I really dug this book. It was interesting from many different angles. The breakdown of the various game types into what kinds of AI was most useful was cool, I'd never seen that in an AI book before. In addition to all the working code, the book also had quite a few "samples" of code from real games, so that you could see some of the techniques in use. I really liked the section at the end of each coding chapter where the book talks about "Extensions" meaning ways to take each AI method a step or two further. I also liked the chapter on how to break down a game into a bunch of AI pieces, separating the AI into workable chunks.

Some of the figures were a little janky, but they did get the idea across. Definately doesn't detract from the book, it just seemed like some of the figures were much better then others.

I've been using the little test app included with the book (it's a small openGL version of asteroids) to play with some ideas of my own. Everything's worked very nice so far.

All in all, very good book. Lots of usable code and plenty of real game AI information.

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