Game AI Pro 360: Guide to Tactics and Strategy

Steve Rabin has 15 years at Nintendo of America, 4 years at various game developer start-ups, and 7 years of college teaching experience. He has been the invited keynote speaker at several academic AI conferences, founder and summit advisor for the AI Summit at GDC, GDC speaker, and founder/manager of the AI Game Programmers Guild.

• About the EditorAbout the ContributorsIntroduction1 Tactical Position Selection: An Architecture and Query LanguageMatthew Jack2 Tactical Pathfinding on a NavMeshDaniel Brewer3 Beyond the Kung-Fu Circle: A Flexible System for Managing NPC AttacksMichael Dawe4 Hierarchical AI for Multiplayer Bots in KillzoneRemco Straatman, Tim Verweij, Alex Champandard, Robert Morcus, and Hylke Kleve5 Using Neural Networks to Control Agent Threat ResponseMichael Robbins6 Looking for Trouble: Making NPCs Search RealisticallyRich Welsh7 Modeling Perception and Awareness in Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell BlacklistMartin Walsh8 Escaping the Grid: Infinite-Resolution Influence MappingMike Lewis9 Modular Tactical Influence MapsDave Mark10 Spatial Reasoning for Strategic Decision MakingKevin Dill11 Extending the Spatial Coverage of a Voxel-Based Navigation MeshKevin A. Kirst12 Being Where It Counts: Telling Paragon Bots Where to GoMieszko Zieliński13 Combat Outcome Prediction for Real-Time Strategy GamesMarius Stanescu, Nicolas A. Barriga, and Michael Buro14 Guide to Effective Auto-Generated Spatial QueriesEric Johnson15 The Role of Time in Spatio-Temporal Reasoning: Three Examples from Tower DefenseBaylor Wetzel and Kyle Anderson16 Pitfalls and Solutions When Using Monte Carlo Tree Search for Strategy and Tactical GamesGijs-Jan Roelofs17 Petri Nets and AI ArbitrationSergio Ocio Barriales18 Hierarchical Portfolio Search in PrismataDavid Churchill and Michael Buro