AI Game Development: Synthetic Creatures with Learning and Reactive Behaviors

Key Topics

  • An Engineer's Perspective

  • Traditional Approach

  • A Modern Approach

  • Required Background

  • AI Development Process

This chapter looks under the hood of game engines, revealing how designs are brought to life by the artificial intelligence (AI). As expected, developing a system capable of providing nonplayer characters (NPCs) with intelligence is an imposing engineering task.

The next few pages tackle the following topics:

  • How to move from the design to the AI development

  • The traditional approach to game AI

  • A different approach to game AI, relying more on learning and embodiment

  • The background knowledge required to pull this off

  • An outline of the AI development process, examining the important stages

The principles presented here apply throughout the rest of this book.

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