Ian Millington crosses the boundary between academic and professional game AI with his book Artificial Intelligence for Games. Most books either lack academic rigor or are rigorous with algorithms that won’t work under the CPU constraints imposed by
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Book Organization and Structure We’ve divided the book into four parts. Part I, Staffing a Scalable Organization, focuses on organization, management, and leadership. Far too often, managers and leaders are promoted based on their talents within the
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