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[IADaveMark]

These are the books that most people recommend for learning AI:

• "Programming Game AI by Example" - Mat Buckland (easily the most complete beginner book on game AI)
• "Artificial Intelligence for Games" - Ian Millington
• "Introduction to Game AI" - Neil Kirby (more of a basic level text with code in VB)
• "AI Game Engine Programming" - Brian Schwab
• "Behavioral Mathematics for Game AI" - Dave Mark
• "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" - Russell and Norvig

Additional reference books:

• "AI Game Programming Wisdom" series - Steve Rabin, editor
• "Game Programming Gems" series

Sites full of game AI goodness:

• AIGameDev - Alex Champandard (the go-to place for articles, papers, interviews, etc.)
• AI Game Programmers Guild - home page of the AIGPG with lots of links to papers and presentation slides
• Game/AI - blog with various authors
• IA on AI - blog with commentary on game AI
• Post-Play'em - blog with observations on AI in actual games
• Digesting Duck - Mikko Mononen's blog (Recast & Detour)

Events/Conferences:

• Game Developers Conference
• GDC AI Summit
• Paris Game AI Conference
• AIIDE (Artificial Intelligence in Digital Entertainment)

[xEricx]

If I can add to this:

http://www.cgf-ai.com/products.html William Van Der Sterren's web site (he's known for his terrain analysis)
http://red3d.com/cwr/steer/ Craig Reynold's "Steering Behaviors For Autonomous Characters", useful for anyone implementing steering
http://generation5.org/ The website is pretty much dead but it still contains tons of interesting articles
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/gameprog.html Amit Patel's page on game programming, contains interesting information on path finding

[liza]

here I found an implementation of 8 puzzle game using A* algorithm and heuristics http://freecode.coolpage.biz/JavaCode.html

[Laypoof]

hey guys, do these books also refer to actionscript in Flash CS5?

[jakubm]

Global optimisation:
http://www.it-weise.de/documents/files/ea-app-book/index.html
Algorithms inspired by nature:
http://www.cleveralgorithms.com

[Marltoro]

Would Programming Game AI by Example work with any object oriented programming language like Java?

[IADaveMark]

Would Programming Game AI by Example work with any object oriented programming language like Java?

LIkely most of the stuff would carry over. Obviously, there are huge weaknesses in Java's memory management and data structures that you might run into problems with from an implementation standpoint. Otherwise, the concepts are sound. Note that you won't be able to use and manipulate all the code that comes with the book... that sets you back a lot since he encourages you to tweak things as part of the learning process.

[IADaveMark]

hey guys, do these books also refer to actionscript in Flash CS5?

Concepts? Yes.
Implementation? Not even remotely.

[calculemus1988]

Would Programming Game AI by Example work with any object oriented programming language like Java?

Check out my journal, you could easily translate my C# code to Java.

[Fuzsy]

Encog - Framework

A very nice open source framework with good examples. The framework + source code can be downloaded for Java and C#

The framework contains a lot of different kind of neural networks and learning techniques such as: Feedforward Neural Network, Boltzmann Machine, Hopfield Neural Network, Genetic Algorithm Training, Backpropagation, ADALINE Training etc.
A lot of examples, video lectures and a wiki about networks and learning techniques can also be found on the homepage.

http://www.heatonresearch.com/download


Aforge.NET - Framework

The framework contains the most basic Neural networks and learning techniques but also a Fuzzy logic library and some simple machine learning algorithms like Q-learning. Furthermore the framework also contains a Vision library.
The framework is also open source and is easy to use. Some very good examples can be found at codeproject.com

http://www.aforgenet.com/framework/

Edited by Fuzsy, 12 September 2012 - 10:45 AM.