Artificial Intelligence for Games
by Ian Millington, John Funge · Morgan Kaufmann
Reference text covering the standard game AI toolkit: steering and movement, pathfinding, decision trees and state machines, tactical analysis, and board game search, with pseudocode and performance notes for each technique.
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