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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

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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External Resources

The official Behavior Bricks project page from the Complutense University of Madrid in Spain http://gaia.fdi.ucm.es/research/bb/
Behavior Bricks official documentation: http://bb.padaonegames.com/doku.php
Chris Simpson (the developer of Project Zomboid) wrote a nice explanation of BTs on Gamasutra: https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/ChrisSimpson/20140717/221339/Behavior_trees_for_AI_How_they_work.php.
Chapter 6 of GameAI Pro, which explores many implementation details of BTs (in C++), is free and available at the following link: https://www.gameaipro.com/GameAIPro/GameAIPro_Chapter06_The_Behavior_Tree_Starter_Kit.pdf.

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Authors (3)

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

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 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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