Chile: An attempt at "historic compromise" : the real story of the Allende years

Palacios, Jorge

Banner Press

The authorized edition of Chunks: A Barfzarro Anthology, containing such deliciously indigestible horror/Bizarro stories as "Zita Anathema" by Karina Sims, "Rat Pudding" by James Ward Kirk, "Stalker" by Marie Victoria Robertson, "Pink Sock" by Bob Freville and many more. Designed for Mature Audiences 18+ only. These stories are disgusting, repulsive and extreme enough to produce the titular effect.

Chunks: A Barfzarro Anthology: Authorized Nocturnicorn Books Edition

Literature & Fiction

Lucas, Tom

Kirk, James Ward

Ropes, Christopher

Johnson, Alex S.

Hartwell, Ash

Wanglund, Colleen

Fortier, Mary Genevieve

Cole, Greg

Kang, Sutter

Genre Fiction

Independently published

Key Features
<ul>
<li>Empower your agent with decision making capabilities using advanced minimaxing and Negamaxing techniques</li>
<li>Discover how AI can be applied to a wide range of games to make them more interactive.</li>
<li>Instigate vision and hearing abilities in your agent through collider based and graph based systems</li>
</ul>Book DescriptionUnity 5 comes fully packaged with a toolbox of powerful features to help game and app developers create and implement powerful game AI. Leveraging these tools via Unity's API or built-in features allows limitless possibilities when it comes to creating your game's worlds and characters. This practical Cookbook covers both essential and niche techniques to help you be able to do that and more.
This Cookbook is engineered as your one-stop reference to take your game AI programming to the next level. Get to grips with the essential building blocks of working with an agent, programming movement and navigation in a game environment, and improving your agent's decision making and coordination mechanisms - all through hands-on examples using easily customizable techniques. Discover how to emulate vision and hearing capabilities for your agent, for natural and humanlike AI behaviour, and improve them with the help of graphs. Empower your AI with decision-making functions through programming simple board games such as Tic-Tac-Toe and Checkers, and orchestrate agent coordination to get your AIs working together as one.What you will learn<ul>
<li>Use techniques such as A*and A*mbush to empower your agents with path finding capabilities.</li>
<li>Create a representation of the world and make agents navigate it</li>
<li>Construct decision-making systems to make the agents take different actions</li>
<li>Make different agents coordinate actions and create the illusion of technical behavior</li>
<li>Simulate senses and apply them in an awareness system</li>
<li>Design and implement AI in board games such as Tic-Tac-Toe and Checkers</li>
<li>Implement efficient prediction mechanism in your agents with algorithms such as N-Gram predictor and naive Bayes classifier</li>
<li>Understand and analyze how the influence maps work.</li>
</ul>About the AuthorJorge Palacios is a software developer with seven years of professional experience. He has committed the last four years to game development working in various positions; from tool developer, to lead programmer. His main focus is AI and gameplay programming, and currently he works with Unity and HTML5. He's also a game development instructor, speaker, and game jam organizer.
You can find more about him on http://jorge.palacios.coTable of Contents<ol>
<li>Behaviors – Intelligent Movement</li>
<li>Navigation</li>
<li>Decision Making</li>
<li>Coordination and Tactics</li>
<li>Agent Awareness</li>
<li>Board Games AI</li>
<li>Learning Techniques</li>
<li>Miscellaneous</li>
</ol>

Unity 5.x Game AI Programming Cookbook

Computers & Technology

Programming

Packt Publishing

Explore various recipes to build games using popular artificial intelligence techniques and algorithms such as Navmesh navigation A*, DFS, and UCB1Key Features<ul>
<li>Explore different algorithms for creating decision-making agents that go beyond simple behaviors and movement</li>
<li>Discover the latest features of the NavMesh API for scripting intelligent behaviour in your game characters</li>
<li>Create games that are non-predictable and dynamic and have a high replayability factor</li>
</ul>Book DescriptionInteractive and engaging games come with intelligent enemies, and this intellectual behavior is combined with a variety of techniques collectively referred to as Artificial Intelligence. Exploring Unity's API, or its built-in features, allows limitless possibilities when it comes to creating your game's worlds and characters. This cookbook covers both essential and niche techniques to help you take your AI programming to the next level.
To start with, you’ll quickly run through the essential building blocks of working with an agent, programming movement, and navigation in a game environment, followed by improving your agent's decision-making and coordination mechanisms – all through hands-on examples using easily customizable techniques. You’ll then discover how to emulate the vision and hearing capabilities of your agent for natural and humanlike AI behavior, and later improve the agents with the help of graphs. This book also covers the new navigational mesh with improved AI and pathfinding tools introduced in the Unity 2018 update. You’ll empower your AI with decision-making functions by programming simple board games, such as tic-tac-toe and checkers, and orchestrate agent coordination to get your AIs working together as one.
By the end of this book, you’ll have gained expertise in AI programming and developed creative and interactive games.What you will learn<ul>
<li>Create intelligent pathfinding agents with popular AI techniques such as A* and A*mbush</li>
<li>Implement different algorithms for adding coordination between agents and tactical algorithms for different purposes</li>
<li>Simulate senses so agents can make better decisions, taking account of the environment</li>
<li>Explore different algorithms for creating decision-making agents that go beyond simple behaviors and movement</li>
<li>Create coordination between agents and orchestrate tactics when dealing with a graph or terrain</li>
<li>Implement waypoints by making a manual selector</li>
</ul>Who this book is forThe Unity 2018 Artificial Intelligence Cookbook is for you if you are eager to get more tools under your belt to solve AI- and gameplay-related problems. Basic knowledge of Unity and prior knowledge of C# is an advantage.Table of Contents<ol>
<li>Behaviors- Intelligent Movement</li>
<li>Navigation</li>
<li>Decision Making</li>
<li>The new NavMesh API</li>
<li>Coordination and Tactics</li>
<li>Agent Awarness</li>
<li>Board Games and Applied Search AI </li>
<li>Learning Techniques</li>
<li>Procedural Content Generation</li>
<li>Miscellaneous</li>
</ol>

Unity 2018 Artificial Intelligence Cookbook - Second Edition

Leverage the power of the Unity 2018 game engine to create games with brilliant gameplay and high replayability. Key Features <ul>
<li>Develop different types of games from scratch with Unity 2018 </li> <li>Discover the secrets of creating AAA quality shaders without writing long algorithms </li> <li>Script intelligent game characters and agents using Artificial Intelligence techniques and algorithms</li>
</ul> Book Description Through this Learning Path, you'll learn how to leverage the features of Unity and create amazing games, ranging from action shooters and mind-bending puzzle games to adventure and Virtual Reality(VR) games. If you have no prior experience of using Unity, you can still benefit from this Learning Path, which easily explains the complete working of the Unity toolset. You'll start by learning how to create compelling shaders using Unity and understanding everything you need to know about vectors. This includes useful inputs on how lighting is constructed with vectors and how textures are used to create complex effects without the need for advanced math. In the succeeding chapters, you'll also be able to use popular AI techniques, such as A* and A*mbush to develop intelligent pathfinding agents for your games. The book will also guide you through different algorithms for creating decision-making agents that go beyond simple behaviors and movement. By the end of this Learning Path, you will have developed all the basic skills to create highly engaging and replayable games. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: <ul>
<li>Unity 2018 By Example - Second Edition by Alan Thorn </li> <li>Unity 2018 Shaders and Effects Cookbook - Third Edition by John P. Doran, Alan Zucconi </li> <li>Unity 2018 Artificial Intelligence Cookbook - Second Edition by Jorge Palacios </li> </ul> What you will learn <ul>
<li>Understand concepts such as game objects, components, and scenes </li> <li>Create functional games with C# scripting </li> <li>Write shaders from scratch in ShaderLab and HLSL/Cg </li> <li>Develop intelligent pathfinding agents with A and Ambush </li> <li>Work with terrains and world-creation tools </li> <li>Simulate senses for agents to make decisions based on the environment </li> <li>Implement waypoints by creating a manual selector </li> <li>Enhance games with volumetric explosions, special effects, and visuals</li>
</ul> Who this book is for If you are a game developer who wants to learn tools that can transform your gameplay, this beginner-level Learning Path is ideal for you. Having basic knowledge of C# will help you grasp the concepts explained in the book easily.Table of Contents <ol>
<li>Unity Fundamentals</li> <li>Creating a Collection Game</li> <li>Post Processing Stack</li> <li>Creating Your First Shader</li> <li>Surface Shaders and Texture Mapping</li> <li>Understanding Lighting Models</li> <li>Physically-Based Rendering</li> <li>Vertex Functions</li> <li>Fragment Shaders and Grab Passes</li> <li>Mobile Shader Adjustment</li> <li>Screen Effects with Unity Render Textures</li> <li>Behaviors – Intelligent Movement</li> <li>Navigation</li> <li>Decision Making</li> <li>The New NavMesh API</li> <li>Coordination and Tactics</li> <li>Agent Awareness</li> <li>Board Games and Applied Search AI</li> <li>Learning Techniques</li> <li>Procedural Content Generation</li>
</ol>

Complete Unity 2018 Game Development: Explore techniques to build 2D/3D applications using real-world examples

Thorn, Alan

P. Doran, John

Zucconi, Alan

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