商品描述
Game AI Uncovered: Volume One kicks off a brand-new series of books that focus on the development of artificial intelligence in video games. This volume brings together the collected wisdom, ideas, tricks, and cutting-edge techniques from 20 of the top game AI professionals and researchers from around the world.
The techniques discussed in these pages cover the underlying development of a wide array of published titles, including Hood: Outlaws and Legends, The Escapists 2, Sackboy: A Big Adventure, Call of Duty: Strike Team, GTI+ Club, Split/Second, Sonic All Stars Racing Transformed, Luna Abyss, Medal of Honor Heroes I & II, Age of Empires IV, Watch Dogs, Battlefield 2042, Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville, Dead Space, and more.
Contained within this volume are overviews and insight covering a host of different areas within game AI, including situational awareness, pathfinding, tethering, squad behaviours, coordination, auto-generating navigation link data, fluid movement, combining behaviour and animation systems, pedal control for cars, tactical positioning, level of detail, infinite axis utility systems, hierarchical state machines, bots for testing, reactive behaviour trees, and more.
Beginners to the area of game AI, along with professional developers, will find a wealth of knowledge that will not only help in the development of your own games but will also spark ideas for new approaches.
This volume includes chapters written by Andy Brown, Dr Allan Bruce, Richard Bull, Laurent Couvidou, Steven Dalton, Michele Ermacora, Jonas Gillberg, Dale Green, Johan Holthausen, Dr Aitor Santamaría Ibirika, Dr Nic Melder, Sarat Rallabandi, Bruno Rebaque, John Reynolds, Paul Roberts, David Rogers, Andrea Schiel, Huw Talliss, Dr Tommy Thompson, and David Wooldridge.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
《遊戲人工智慧揭秘：第一卷》是一系列關注遊戲人工智慧開發的全新書籍的開端。本書匯集了來自世界各地20位頂尖遊戲人工智慧專家和研究人員的智慧、想法、技巧和尖端技術。
本書討論的技術涵蓋了多個已發行遊戲的開發，包括《Hood: Outlaws and Legends》、《The Escapists 2》、《Sackboy: A Big Adventure》、《Call of Duty: Strike Team》、《GTI+ Club》、《Split/Second, Sonic All Stars Racing Transformed》、《Luna Abyss》、《Medal of Honor Heroes I & II》、《Age of Empires IV》、《Watch Dogs》、《Battlefield 2042》、《Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville》、《Dead Space》等等。
本書內容包含了遊戲人工智慧領域的多個方面的概述和見解，包括情境感知、路徑尋找、連接、小隊行為、協調、自動生成導航連結數據、流暢移動、結合行為和動畫系統、車輛踏板控制、戰術定位、細節層次、無限軸工具系統、階層狀態機、測試機器人、反應式行為樹等等。
無論是遊戲人工智慧領域的初學者還是專業開發人員，都能從本書中獲得豐富的知識，不僅有助於開發自己的遊戲，還能激發新的思路。
本書的章節由Andy Brown、Dr Allan Bruce、Richard Bull、Laurent Couvidou、Steven Dalton、Michele Ermacora、Jonas Gillberg、Dale Green、Johan Holthausen、Dr Aitor Santamaría Ibirika、Dr Nic Melder、Sarat Rallabandi、Bruno Rebaque、John Reynolds、Paul Roberts、David Rogers、Andrea Schiel、Huw Talliss、Dr Tommy Thompson和David Wooldridge撰寫。
作者簡介
Paul Roberts is a Lead AI programmer at Sumo Digital. He has a Master's degree in Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence, where he focused on pathfinding and developed the DRS algorithm and ways to test the believability of generated paths. He has worked for a variety of studios in the UK from Team17, Traveller's Tales, Activision, and some smaller indie studios. Paul also managed the Games Programming department at Staffordshire University for several years where he oversaw the development of new degree programs that saw a close collaboration with the games industry. Paul has written a number of books - some fiction, others academic - the latest of which is Artificial Intelligence in Games published by CRC Press in 2022.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Paul Roberts是Sumo Digital的首席人工智能程式設計師。他擁有計算機科學與人工智能的碩士學位，專注於路徑規劃並開發了DRS算法以及測試生成路徑的可信度的方法。他曾在英國的多個工作室工作，包括Team17、Traveller's Tales、Activision和一些較小的獨立工作室。Paul還在Staffordshire大學管理遊戲程式設計系數年，監督了與遊戲行業密切合作的新學位課程的開發。Paul已經出版了多本書籍，有些是小說，有些是學術著作，其中最新的一本是由CRC Press於2022年出版的《遊戲中的人工智能》。
