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Programming Game AI by Example
by: Mat Buckland

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Dewey Decimal Number: 794.81526
EAN: 9781556220784
ISBN: 1556220782
Label: Wordware Publishing Inc.,U.S.
Manufacturer: Wordware Publishing Inc.,U.S.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 500
Publication Date: October 01, 2004
Publisher: Wordware Publishing Inc.,U.S.
Studio: Wordware Publishing Inc.,U.S.
Sales Rank: 26419

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- A good book, does the job
A good book for game AI to get you started, the text reads fine and is easy to follow. The code on the other hand is rather messy, and I agree with the other reviewer that pseudo code would have been a better option - you have to read through all the authors little coding habits to root out what you need.

Still, worth a read because the AI descriptions are very well put together.

Rating:

- Nicely done.
First off, it's a good read as it is so well written. There is an invaluable basic maths/physics primer at the
start (in fact I still refer to that section a year later). Then a nice gentle intro with FSMs (although, on my girlfriends orders, I had to rewrite the tasks given to the Miner's Wife). From there it's Steering Behaviours, Sports AI, Pathfinding etc (all the usual suspects) but the examples for each are superb. I did struggle slightly translating the code
(pseudo-code would have been nice) but that's a minor point.

Rating:

- A great book, with some significant gaps.
This is a great book for hobbiest game developers, and professionals new to AI. It gives a good overview of some of the most interested areas of game AI, and practical solutions to make progress.

It is the first book I've seen that makes a good effort to present solutions that would actually be used in real games. Which surprised me, because Mat's first book on game AI was just like every other title I've read: a blend of hype and unusable technology. With this book he has come on by miles.

I'm AI programmer in the industry, and this is the first book I've seen that I could hand-on-heart recommend for real technology (John Funge's book is also good, but as an overview, not for practical implementation).

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Rating:

- A must have.
The book uses source code (C++) and UML diagrams to explain AI techniques that can be found in various games in a simple yet precise manner. Each chapter has a practical Visual C++ project, which can be used as a framework to expand on the ideas presented. I thoroughly recommend this book, not only for AI programmers, but programmers in general, as it re-inforces good software engineering practices in an industry that largely discards them.

Overall, an excellent book. This is how AI should be taught at University.

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