Game AI Uncovered (eBook)

Chapter 1 Handling Navigation in Lords of the Fallen for Multiple Enemy Sizes

Bruno Rebaque

Chapter 2 Creating Clean Navigation Data in Lords of the Fallen

Bruno Rebaque

Chapter 3 Hack and Slash AI Combat Roles: A Simple Approach to

Dynamic Enemy Behaviour

David Soler Bartomeu

Chapter 4 Agitation System in Assassin's Creed Nexus

Lisa Ridley

Chapter 5 Creating Boss Behaviours in Luna Abyss

John Reynolds and Matthew Reynolds

Chapter 6 AI Level of Detail in Multiplayer Games

Laurent Couvidou

Chapter 7 Driver Assists in Racing: Using the Vehicle AI to

Aid the Player

Dr Nic Melder

Chapter 8 AI Showrunner - Managing Gameplay Experience with a Hierarchical Network of AI Directors

Dr Dominik Gotojuch

Chapter 9 Recast Navigation

Andy Brown

Chapter 10 Intelligent Cover

Paul Roberts and James (Jay) Vickers

Chapter 11 How-To Smart Object

Carl Viktor Benjamin Lundström

Chapter 12 Utility AI and Emergent Gameplay: Transforming Game Worlds

Dr Vicky Bloom

Chapter 13 The Importance of Separation of Concerns in

AI Architecture

David Guzman

Chapter 14 Applications of Vector Fields in AI - The Navigation System of Speedball

Sarat Rallabandi

Chapter 15 Unlocking Doors

Philip Dunstan

Chapter 16 An Architecture for AI Game Masters in Tabletop RPGs

Matt Eland

Chapter 17 Follow Through: Ara: History Untold's Long-Term Planning System

William Smith Chambers and Eric Alzheimer

Chapter 18 Using Nav-Mesh Flood Fill to Speed Up Environment Querying

Slavomir Krbyla

Chapter 19 Using Monte Carlo Tree Search in Soccer Kids

Rafal Tyl

Chapter 20 The LLM Playwright: Managing NPC Dialogue and Behaviour in Real-Time Using Large Language Models

Mateo Saldivar

Chapter 21 Bringing Ambient Animals to Life in Psychonauts 2

Rebecca (Beca) Vessal

Chapter 22 RMA*: Restricted Memory A*

Paul Roberts