CSCI 682
Resources/Links

First Week Introduction

• AI?, AI Game-Playing Techniques: Are They Useful for Anything Other Than Games?
• The AI Effect American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) page with
  • "Take a moment and a raise a glass to the wonderful, underappreciated AI"
  • "Behind Artificial Intelligence, a Squadron of Bright Real People "
  • "AI: the smart way to go"

  • Artificial Intelligence in Computer Games

  • AI in Computer Games

• AIWisdom.com "Our Goal: Catalogue Every Game AI Article and Every Graphics Article"

• The Game AI Page (gameai) ??where now? Steven Woodcock's Game AI Resources - with some software
  • Note: Under Topics - Current Games Steven Woodcock’s website (Games Making Interesting Use of Artificial Intelligence Techniques)
  • AI in Games: A Personal View Black and White Game Lionhead Studios ( local)

• gamedev.net

• Amit's Game Programming Information

• AI-depot Alex Champandard's AI Resources

• aigamedev

• practicalgameai

• Generation 5 James Matthews - not particularly games but much of the AI in games and a link to gaming and a bunch of articles and tutorials.

• AI site and another link there WAY more on this second one for this class!

• AI in Computer Games ACM Queue vol. 1, no. 10 - February 2004 ( local)

• AI for Games and Animation: A Cognitive Modeling Approach article ( local)

• IEEE Spectrum Mind Games Sept 22, 2004 (local)

• http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/gameprog.html#paths Amit Patel's Game Programming and A* Information

• Intelligent Creatures

Links to pages of researchers

• John Laird
  • Machine Learning for Computer Games
  • The Role of AI in Computer Game Genres ( local copy Link figure seems to work only on IE)
    (seems close to the same paper but better links in picture)
• The Game AI Page Steven Woodcock's Game AI Resources
• Research Directions for AI in Computer Games
• IJIGS: The International Journal of Intelligent Games and Simulation
• AI Center Alexander Nareyek
  This article AI in Computer Games ACM Queue vol. 1, no. 10 - February 2004 was his. It also has links to other articles in that particular magazine
• AIWisdom.com nice links Game AI Articles and Research
• AI and Computer Game Links

• AI Game Development: Synthetic Creatures with Learning and Reactive Behaviors, A.J. Champandard, New Riders Press, 2004. ISBN: 1592730043
  neural networks, decision trees, genetic classifiers, and reinforcement learning
• Artificial Intelligence for Computer Games Funge's book. Check out the Links
• AIWisdom.com above also. Abstracts to articles in AI Wisdom and Game Programming Gems.
  These are all available from the CSU Chico library. Currently they are on 2 hour reserve
  • Rabin, S. ed. AI Game Programming Wisdom, Vol. 1, 2002 (Hingham, MA: Charles River Media) ( excerpt from Ch 1 at amazon)
  • Rabin, S. ed. AI Game Programming Wisdom, Vol. 2, 2003 (Hingham, MA: Charles River Media)
  • Treglia, D., ed Game Programming Gems, Vols. 1-3, 2000-2002 (Hingham, MA: Charles River Media)
  • Treglia, D., ed Game Programming Gems, Vol. 4, 2004 (Hingham, MA: Charles River Media) ISBN 1584502959
• AI for games and animation: a cognitive modeling approach and here and here too
• Mod Programming in Quake III Arena, Shawn Holmes, Premier Press, 2002.
• Programming Game AI By Example Mat Buckland, Wordware Publishing (Paperback - November 2004) ISBN: 1556220782
  intelligent agents Techniques covered include state- and goal-based behavior, inter-agent communication, individual and group steering behaviors, team AI, graph theory, search, path planning and optimization, triggers, scripting, scripted finite state machines, perceptual modeling, goal evaluation, goal arbitration, and fuzzy logic.
• AI Techniques for Game Programming, Mat Buckland, Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade (Premier Press), Cincinati , Ohio, 2003. ISBN: 193184108X
  genetic algorithms and neural networks (see his tutorial links below)
  reviews and comments on this book

Software

• Quake
• planetQuake
• PC World Quake III and others
• http://www.colinfahey.com/tetris/tetris.html Tetris AI system (link thanks to Mike Long)

Groups/Associations and Conferences

• IGDA AI Special Interest Group
  http://www.igda.org/ai Artificial Intelligence Interface Standards Workgroup of the International Game Developers Association
• gamasutra
• Conference on AI Games

Tutorials