Mil Millington is een Britse auteur die gevierd wordt om zijn humoristische observaties over relaties en het dagelijks leven. Hij kreeg bekendheid door zijn geestige website waarop hij ruzies en misverstanden met zijn Duitse vriendin beschreef, waarmee hij een uniek talent toonde om komedie te vinden in alledaagse zaken. Zijn schrijfstijl wordt gekenmerkt door scherpe ironie, openhartige eerlijkheid en een gave om de absurditeit van menselijke verbindingen te ontleden. Millingtons werk verkent voortdurend thema's als liefde, communicatie en culturele verschillen met een luchtige maar inzichtelijke aanpak die resoneert bij de lezers.
Game development lives in its own technical world. It has its own idioms, skills, and challenges. That's one of the reasons games are so much fun to work on. AI for Games is designed to help you understand one element of game development: artificial intelligence (AI).
Creating robust artificial intelligence is one of the greatest challenges for game developers. The commercial success of a game is often dependent upon the quality of the AI, yet the engineering of AI is often begun late in the development process and is frequently misunderstood. In this book, Ian Millington brings extensive professional experience to the problem of improving the quality of AI in games. A game developer since 1987, he was founder of Mindlathe Ltd., at the time the largest specialist AI company in gaming. Ian shows how to think about AI as an integral part of game play. He describes numerous examples from real games and explores the underlying ideas through detailed case studies. He goes further to introduce many techniques little used by developers today. The book's CD-ROM contains a library of C++ source code and demonstration programs, and provides access to a website with a complete commercial source code library of AI algorithms and techniques.
The bestselling cult comedy from Mil Millington published alongside his new novel, Love and Other Near Death Experiences