What it means to be an AI Game Developer

First of all, you will need to master maths, physics, and coding. Also, you will mostly probably work in an interdisciplinary team, which includes artists, designers, and programmers. In fact, you will probably work with existing proprietary software technology, and it's required that you are able to build new technology to fulfill the project's technical requirements. You will be asked to research coding techniques and algorithms so that you keep yourself up to date on technological developments and advancements in the game industry and to identify technical and developmental risks/obstacles and generate solutions to overcome identified risks.

On the other hand, you will be able to give life to characters and entities in video games. After all the frustrations that you might go through, you will be the first one to assist, or better, generate an intelligent behavior in games. It takes time and is quite challenging, so don't be too hard on yourself in the early stages. Once you achieve some real AI in your game that can think on its own, this is an achievement worthy of rewarding yourself for.

For beginners in AI, this book will help you set the first stones toward that goal. For experts, this book will provide a useful guide to refresh the different AI systems in Unreal, and explore in-depth features that might help you in your work.