Game Programming Gems IV: AI Contents

The Game Programming Gems IV book features the following 8 chapters on game AI: Third-Person Camera Navigation - Jonathan Stone Narrative Combat: Using AI to Enhance Tension in an Action Game - Borut Pfeifer NPC Decision Making: Dealing with Randomness - Karèn Pivazyan An Object-Oriented Utility-Based Decision Architecture - John Hancock A Distributed-Reasoning Voting Architecture - John Hancock Attractors and Repulsors - John M. Olsen Advanced Wall Building for RTS Games - Mario Grimani Artificial Neural Networks on Programmable Graphics Hardware - Thomas Rolfes

Game Programming Gems III: AI Contents

The Game Programming Gems III book features the following 10 chapters on game AI: A Fast Approach To Navigation Meshes - Stephen White A General Trigger System for AI Entities, Objects, and Quests - Steve Rabin Character virtualization - Loic Le Chevalier Function Pointer-Based Embedded Finite State Machines - Charles Farris Issues In Implementing Movement Based AI - Thomas Young Kill! Kill! Kill! Allocating Shots in a Target Rich Environment - Steven Woodcock Optimized machine learning techniques - Thor Alexander Rectangle Navigation: a highly efficient alternative to A* - Ben Board & Mick Ducker Tactical Pathfinding using A* - William van der Sterren Terrain Analysis in an RTS - Daniel Higgins

Game Programming Gems II: AI Contents

The Game Programming Gems II book features the following 14 chapters on game AI: AI Overall / Architecture Strategies for Optimizing AI - Steve Rabin Micro-Threads for Game Object AI - Bruce Dawson Managing AI with Micro-Threads - Simon Carter RTS and Terrain Reasoning An Architecture for RTS Command Queueing - Steve Rabin A High Performance Tile-base Line-of-Sight and Search system - Matt Pritchard Influence Mapping - Paul Tozour Strategic Assessment Techniques - Paul Tozour Terrain Reasoning for 3D Action Games - William van der Sterren Pathfinding and Flocking Expanded Geometry for Points-of-Visibility Pathfinding - Thomas Young Optimizing Points-of-Visibility Pathfinding - Thomas Young Flocking with Teeth: Predators and Prey - Steven Woodcock Advanced Topics made Practical A Generic Fuzzy State Machine in C++ - Eric Dybsand Imploding Combinatorial Explosion in a Fuzzy System - Michael Zarozinski Using Neural Networks in AI: A Concrete Example - John Manslow

Game Programming Gems I: AI Contents

The Game Programming Gems I book features the following 10 chapters on game AI: Designing a General Robust AI Engine - Steve Rabin A Finite State Machine Class - Eric Dybsand Game Trees - Jan Svarovsky The Basics of A* for Path Finding - Bryan Stout A* Aesthetic Optimizations - Steve Rabin A* Speed Optimizations - Steve Rabin Simplified 3D Movement and Pathfinding Using Navigation Meshes - Greg Snook Flocking: A Simple Technique for Simulating Group Behavior - Steven Woodcock Fuzzy Logic for Video Games - Mason McCuskey A Neural-Net Primer - Andre LaMothe