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Mastering Unity 2D game development

You're reading from   Mastering Unity 2D game development Mastering Unity 2D Game Development will give your game development skills a boost and help you begin creating and building an RPG with Unity 2D game framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2014
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ISBN-13 9781849697347
Length 474 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Simon Jackson Simon Jackson
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Overview 2. Building a Character FREE CHAPTER 3. Getting Animated 4. The Game World 5. NPCs and Interactions 6. The Big Wild World 7. Encountering Enemies and Running Away 8. Shopping for Weapons 9. Getting Ready to Fight 10. Fight and Gain XP 11. Onward Wary Traveler 12. Deployment and Beyond A. Additional Resources Index

Basic Artificial Intelligence


Artificial Intelligence(AI) is a term banded around most game systems and is a general bucket for several techniques for machine-based learning systems. Its sole aim is to fool the user/player into believing that the system is behaving like any living being, mainly to challenge the player in head-to-head battles or helpful supporting characters.

Some systems used to achieve this are as follows:

  • Path-finding: This helps AI-controlled entities navigate through levels to a specific destination

  • Flocking: This orders how multiple AI entities will relate to each other within a given area

  • State machines: These are fixed and basic sensor-driven intelligence to drive AI actions.

  • Rule-based expert systems: These are the defined logic systems for an AI entity to derive action from and aid decision making

  • Neural networks: These are advanced learning networks for AI entities, typically used to predict the performance of the AI and also understand the predictable behavior of opponents...

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