Artificial Intelligence Tutorials — Game Development Guides

Generating Optimized 2D Art in Unity: Procedural Generation for Stylized and Optimized 2D Foliage

I was looking for a quick and easy PCG (Procedural Content Generation) Unity project last year so I started playing aro…

Dyonisian

9 min read 26.4k 1 1

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A Simple and Effective Guidance System for Crowd Simulation

A Simple and Effective Guidance System for Crowd Simulation.

mr.otakhi

2 min read 8.7k

Simplified flock algorithm for glow worm's AI

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Simplified flock algorithm for glow worm's AI

Very simmple method to make Your scene more attractive

crashedcreativity

2 min read 10.2k

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Identifying Player Drawn Symbols

Identifying drawings can be difficult. This articles covers a basic algorithm that can classify symbols drawn by a play…

HappyCoder

11 min read 10.3k 1

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A Thread about Navigation Mesh and Sunset Overdrive...

This thread on Navigation Meshes in Sunset Overdrive was posted by Jonathan Adamczewski (@twoscomplement on Twitter). Y…

Jonathan Adamczewski

6 min read 14.4k

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Close Quarters Development: Realistic Combat AI Part 1

A description of the approach and AI techniques used for bot behaviour in Close Quarters.

Jackson

9 min read 22.2k 5

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How to Create Basic Environment Interactions with AI

When creating AI for video games, one of the most important aspects is its placement. The position of the AI character …

Micael DaGraca

20 min read 16.2k

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The Total Beginner's Guide to Game AI

This article will introduce you to a range of introductory concepts used in artificial intelligence for games (or ‘Game…

Ben Sizer

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Implementing Pathfinding for AI agents with NavMesh in Unity

This tutorial is an excerpt from the book, Unity 2017 Game AI Programming - Third Edition, and discusses how to impleme…

Ray Barrera, Aung Sithu Kyaw, and Thet Naing Swe

16 min read 31.7k 1

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Navigation Meshes and Pathfinding

A discussion of navigation meshes and pathfinding algorithms.

MiiMii1205

9 min read 92.1k 6 1

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Neural Networks 101

A quick guide to getting starting with machine learning.

Aditya Harsh

4 min read 24k

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How Artificial Intelligence has Shaped the History of Gaming

This is an extract from Practical Game AI Programming from Packt. When humans play games – like chess, for example – th…

Micael DaGraça

6 min read 21.6k 1

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Action Lists: Simple, Flexible, Extendable AI

Action Lists are a simple yet powerful type of AI allowing for relatively complex emergent behavior for smaller AI netw…

Jesse Crafts-Finch

9 min read 55.2k 2 10

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Jump Point Search: Fast A* Pathfinding for Uniform Cost Grids

Want faster A*? Have uniform costs? Use Jump Point Search!

Albert Hofkamp

15 min read 95.4k 1 2

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Memory Markers

Inspired by the 'Simplest trick I know' series of GDC talks, I've begun to document all the small code and design tips …

Asher Einhorn

3 min read 36.2k 6

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Making Machines Learn

What if the system could reproduce the learning patterns of the human player: starting inexperienced and, by being thou…

Jean-René Couture

21 min read 38.2k 8

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Generalized Platformer AI Pathfinding

In this article, we'll explore a powerful, general technique to guiding "jump and run" style AI through a platforming c…

Chris F. Brown (Zamaster, DotStarMoney)

15 min read 68.7k 7

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Dynamic Pathfinding

Mash up your physics engine and your pathfinding engine and what do you get? Dynamic obstacle avoidance.

James Wucher

8 min read 32.4k 5

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Dijkstra's Algorithm - Shortest Path

This post will cover the basics of Dijksta's shortest path algorithm and how it can apply to path finding for game deve…

Erik Hazzard

15 min read 55.2k 5

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Path Finding for innovative games: Navigation

The current main approaches to the path finding issue are good for simple and classic games, but not for innovative one…

Giovanni Guarino

10 min read 35.8k 9