Web Directory

» A* Pathfinding for Beginners
   Introduction to the A* path finding algorithm.
   http://www.policyalmanac.org/games/aStarTutorial.htm

» AI Wisdom
   A database of Artificial Intelligence articles specific to games that appeared in game programming books, magazines, conferences, or on the Internet.
   http://www.aiwisdom.com

» ASCII Robot Soccer
   Unix soccer-like testbed. Source code (C++ with curses and termcap), executable, and screenshots.
   http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~trb/soccer/

» Amit's Thoughts on Path-Finding
   Online paper about path-finding, including the A* algorithm and a greedy algorithm. Implementation notes, precalculation, map representations, heuristics, applications.
   http://theory.stanford.edu/~amitp/GameProgramming/

» Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Computer Games
   Companion site for the book "Artificial Intelligence for Computer Games: An Introduction." Includes bibliography, chapter guide, errata, and relevant links.
   http://ai4games.sourceforge.net/

» CGF-AI Links to Game AI and Tactical AI Resources
   A number of annotated links referring to tactical AI (for games, military simulations, or academic applications) and general game AI.
   http://www.cgf-ai.com/links.html

» Chinook
   Checkers program written by Jonathan Schaeffer et al.; play online. Publications, endgame database statistics, game records.
   http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~chinook/

» Dynamic Stochastic Control - A New Approach To Game Tree Searching
   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.
   http://www.robinupton.com/research/phd

» 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.
   http://www.ai-center.com/projects/excalibur/

» GAMES Research Group
   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.
   http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~games

» GIB Research
   Bridge program written by Matthew Ginsberg. Results, publications, library of deals with double-dummy tricks for each trump suit.
   http://www.cirl.uoregon.edu/ginsberg/gibresearch.html

» Game Semantics or Linear Logic?
   A discussion of how linear logic relates to computability logic, - the game-sematically introduced logic of computational resources and interactive computation.
   http://www.csc.villanova.edu/~japaridz/CL/gsoll.html

» GameDev.net -- Artificial Intelligence
   Gamedev.net is the leading resource for game developers, featuring daily news updates, over 1500 featured articles and tutorials, dozens of game development jobs, and the most active game development forums anywhere!
   http://www.gamedev.net/reference/list.asp?categoryid=18

» Goal Seeker -- Solving the 15 Puzzle
   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.
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/goalseeker/

» John Laird's Artificial Intelligence & Computer Games Research
   Information about some research on Computer Games and Artificial Intelligence in academia.
   http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/laird/gamesresearch.html

» 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.
   http://www.kynogon.com

» Logistello
   Othello program written by Michael Buro. Publications, game records.
   http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~mburo/log.html

» Machine Learning in Games
   Review of research and implementations in Backgammon, Othello, soccer, and other games.
   http://satirist.org/learn-game/

» 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.
   http://www.robocup.org

» SimBionic
   An intelligent agent toolkit that lets you create behaviors within games and simulations quickly and easily, without programming, using its graphical user interface.
   http://www.simbionic.com

» Steering Behaviors For Autonomous Characters
   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.
   http://www.red3d.com/cwr/steer/