Paul Roberts is a Senior Lecturer and Course Lead for BSc (Hons) Computer Games Programming at the University of Staffordshire. Prior to this he was Technical Director at his own independent game studio Grinning Cat. He has worked in a variety of Principal/Lead AI Programmer roles for a range of studios in the UK including Sumo Digital, Team17, Traveller’s Tales, Activision, and some smaller indie studios. Paul has a range of published titles including Worms Revolution, Pitfall!, Call of Duty: Strike Team, The Lego Movie: The Video Game, Pixel-8, and Power-Up. Paul has a Master’s by Research in Computer Science (with Artificial Intelligence), which focused on pathfinding, the development of the DRS algorithm and ways to test the believability of generated paths. Paul is currently a PhD candidate exploring believable decision-making based on memories for boxing games. Paul set up the GameAI Discord channel that has brought together hundreds of game AI professionals, where approaches are shared and ideas discussed. He has recently started the GameAIUncovered YouTube channel, which explains how different game AI concepts work, has written several books, some fiction, others academic, and is the editor for this Game AI Uncovered series.

• Chapter 1 Simulation of Social Norms in City of GangstersChapter 2 Character BelievabilityChapter 3 Monkey Business: NPC Player Imitation in Team17’s The SurvivalistsChapter 4 Not All AIs are Made the SameChapter 5 Stitching It Together The Enemies of Sackboy: A Big AdventureChapter 6 Creating Characters Using ComponentsChapter 7 NPCs That Feel Alive: Achieving Variety and Complexity with Limited ResourcesChapter 8 Utility AI and Emergent Gameplay: Transforming Game WorldsChapter 9 Agitation System in Assassin’s Creed NexusChapter 10 Systemic vs ScriptedChapter 11 Animation‑Driven BehaviourChapter 12 Combining Behaviour and Animation Systems in Luna AbyssChapter 13 Creating Boss Behaviours in Luna AbyssChapter 14 Using Voxels for Environmental CuesChapter 15 N‑Gram for Any Direction Prediction in VRChapter 16 Character Utility Behaviour GraphChapter 17 The Creature Believability ScaleChapter 18 Building a Buddy: Choosing the Right BrainChapter 19 Dumbing Down AI: The Art of Making Intelligence StupidChapter 20 A Beginner’s Guide to AI Character Design