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Unity Artificial Intelligence Programming

You're reading from Unity Artificial Intelligence Programming Add powerful, believable, and fun AI entities in your game with the power of Unity 2018!

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789533910

Length 246 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

Unity

Concepts

Artificial Intelligence

Authors (3):

Dr. Davide Aversa

Clifford Peters

Aung Sithu Kyaw

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to AI FREE CHAPTER

2. Finite State Machines

3. Randomness and Probability

4. Implementing Sensors

5. Flocking

6. Path-Following and Steering Behaviors

7. A* Pathfinding

8. Navigation Mesh

9. Behavior Trees

10. Machine Learning in Unity

11. Putting It All Together

12. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Further reading

To further study the advanced techniques on probability in game AI, such as decision making under uncertainty using Bayesian techniques, I recommend reading AI for Game Developers by David M. Bourg and Glenn Seeman.

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Authors (3)

Dr. Davide Aversa

Dr. Davide Aversa

Dr. Davide Aversa holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and an MSc in AI and robotics from the University of Rome La Sapienza in Italy. He has a strong interest in AI for the development of interactive virtual agents and procedural content generation. He has served as a program committee member for video game-related conferences such as the IEEE conference on computational intelligence and games, and he also regularly participates in game-jam contests. He also writes a blog on game design and game development.

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Peters

Peters

Clifford Peters is a programmer and a computer scientist. He has reviewed the following Packt Publishing books: Unity Game Development Essentials, Unity 3D Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide, Unity 3 Game Development Hotshot, Unity 3.x Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide, Unity iOS Game Development Beginner's Guide, and Unity iOS Essentials.

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Aung Sithu Kyaw

Aung Sithu Kyaw

Aung Sithu Kyaw is passionate about graphics programming, creating video games, writing, and sharing knowledge with others. He holds an MSc degree in digital media technology from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He worked as a research associate, which involved implementing a sensor-based real-time movie system using Unreal Development Kit. In 2011, he founded a tech start-up focusing on interactive media productions and backend server-side technologies.

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