Introduction to AI

This chapter will give you a little background on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in academic, traditional domains, and game specific applications. We'll learn how the application and implementation of AI in games is different from other domains, and the essential and unique requirements for AI in games. We'll also explore the basic techniques of AI used in games. This chapter will serve as a reference for later chapters, where we'll implement these AI techniques in Unity.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• AI in games
• AI techniques