Games
Links
Amit's Thoughts on Path-Finding
http://theory.stanford.edu/~amitp/GameProgramming/
Online paper about path-finding, including the A* algorithm and a greedy algorithm. Implementation notes, precalculation, map representations, heuristics, applications.
Chinook
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~chinook/
Checkers program written by Jonathan Schaeffer et al.; play online. Publications, endgame database statistics, game records.
RoboCup: The Robot World Cup
Aims to develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world soccer champion team.
Machine Learning in Games
http://satirist.org/learn-game/
Review of research and implementations in Backgammon, Othello, soccer, and other games.
Steering Behaviors For Autonomous Characters
http://www.red3d.com/cwr/steer/
Description of simple techniques for controlling goal-directed motion of simulated characters around their world, for applications in games and animation. Includes Java demos and related links.
Kynogon, an Artificial Intelligence expert for the video game industry
Kynogon develops advanced AI solutions for the interactive entertainment industry and takes into account the uniqueness of each game. Costs are reduced, deadlines achieved and time-to-market respected.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Computer Games
http://ai4games.sourceforge.net/
Companion site for the book "Artificial Intelligence for Computer Games: An Introduction." Includes bibliography, chapter guide, errata, and relevant links.
The Game AI Page
Building Artificial Intelligence into Games
GAMES Research Group
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~games
The GAMES research group produces high-performance, real-time programs for strategic game-playing. We have branched out into commercial games and applications of our research to industrial problems.
Game Artificial Intelligence Articles and Research
This site contains a comprehesive database of Artificial Intelligence articles specific to games that appeared in game programming books, magazines, conferences, or on the Internet.
IGDA - Artificial Intelligence Special Interest Group
IGDA has set up the AI Interface Standards Committee to develop AI interface standards for computer games. The initiative is a joint effort of game AI developers, middleware representatives, academics and other relevant experts.
AAAI page on Video Games, Toys, Robotic Pets & Entertainment
http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/html/video.html
AI Topics provides basic, understandable information and helpful resources concerning artificial intelligence, with an emphasis on material available online.
CGF-AI Links to Game AI and Tactical AI Resources
http://www.cgf-ai.com/links.html
A number of annotated links referring to tactical AI (for games, military simulations, or academic applications) and general game AI.
A* Pathfinding for Beginners
http://www.policyalmanac.org/games/aStarTutorial.htm
Introduction to the A* path finding algorithm.
Home Page of the International Computer Games Association (IGDA)
Information from the ICGA organization, contents of the ICGA Journal and information on game programming in Chess, Checkers, Bridge, Go, and many other games.
Steering Behaviors
http://www.steeringbehaviors.de
Description of techniques to autonomously steer vehicles through a predefined virtual world. Simple behaviors (e.g. obstacle avoidance) can be combined to create more complex behaviors.
Game Semantics or Linear Logic?
http://www.csc.villanova.edu/~japaridz/CL/gsoll.html
A discussion of how linear logic relates to computability logic, - the game-sematically introduced logic of computational resources and interactive computation.
SimBionic - rapid development of intelligent behaviors
SimBionic is an intelligent agent toolkit that lets you create behaviors within games and simulations quickly and easily, without programming, using its graphical user interface.
Goal Seeker -- Solving the 15 Puzzle
http://sourceforge.net/projects/goalseeker/
A JAVA framework that implements heuristic goal-seeking algorithms. Using this framework will allow developers to focus on a specific domain of interest, while leaving many of the AI concepts and goal-searching concepts to be implemented by the framework.
ASCII Robot Soccer
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~trb/soccer/
Unix soccer-like testbed. Source code (C++ with curses and termcap), executable, and screenshots.
GRIDWARS
The GRID WARS Challenge is a parallel programming challenge where developers submit battle programs that fight for control of parallel processors.
Dynamic Stochastic Control - A New Approach To Game Tree Searching
http://www.robinupton.com/research/phd
Robin Upton's Ph.D. Thesis uses this branch of Probability Theory to generalise conspiracy numbers, developing the search method known as PCN*, conspiracy probabilities.
Excalibur
http://www.ai-center.com/projects/excalibur/
Our goal is to develop a generic architecture for autonomously operating agents, like computer-guided characters/mobiles/items, within a complex computer-game environment.