AI game development essentials for beginners

• Titel: AI game development essentials for beginners
• Titelzusatz: Unity 6 integration
• Mitwirkende: De Byl, Penny [MitwirkendeR]
• Institutionen: Packt Publishing, [Verlag]
• Ausgabe: [First edition].
• Verlagsort: [Birmingham, United Kingdom]
• Verlag: Packt Publishing
• E-Jahr: 2025
• Jahr: [2025]
• Umfang: 1 online resource (1 video file (19 hr., 54 min.))
• Illustrationen: sound, color.
• Fussnoten: Online resource; title from title details screen (O’Reilly, viewed February 17, 2025)
• ISBN: 978-1-83702-213-7
• ISBN: 1-83702-213-5
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Jeux vidéo ; Programmation
• Sach-SW: Affichage tridimensionnel
• Sach-SW: Intelligence artificielle
• Sach-SW: three-dimensional
• Sach-SW: artificial intelligence
• Form-SW: Instructional films
• Form-SW: Nonfiction films
• Form-SW: Internet videos
• Form-SW: Films de formation
• Form-SW: Films autres que de fiction
• Form-SW: Vidéos sur Internet
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• Lokale URL UB: Bibliothek der Medizinischen Fakultät Mannheim der Universität Heidelberg
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Abstract

AI is revolutionizing game development by enabling intelligent, dynamic NPC behavior. This course starts with AI fundamentals, covering vectors, pathfinding, and physics-based movement. You'll explore key techniques like the A* algorithm, navigation meshes, and state machines to program characters that react realistically. Hands-on coding exercises reinforce core AI concepts in real-world applications. Advancing further, you'll dive into behavior trees, GOAP, and crowd simulation to create NPCs that patrol, chase, and evade. You'll develop AI-driven vehicles, simulate lifelike agent interactions, and implement steering behaviors for natural movement. The curriculum also covers finite state machines, graph-based AI, and procedural decision-making, ensuring a strong foundation in AI-driven game mechanics. By the end of this course, you'll have built AI systems that bring NPCs and vehicles to life across multiple game genres. Whether designing open-world adventures, RTS games, or AI-driven simulations, you'll gain essential skills to create immersive, responsive AI. Through structured learning and real-world projects, this course ensures both theoretical depth and practical mastery of AI-driven game development.