Playing Smart
- 192 pages
- 7 hours of reading
A new vision of the future of games and game design, enabled by AI.
Julian Togelius is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at New York University, where he also serves as Codirector of the NYU Game Innovation Lab.


A new vision of the future of games and game design, enabled by AI.
This is the first textbook dedicated to explaining how artificial intelligence (AI) techniques can be used in and for games. After introductory chapters that explain the background and key techniques in AI and games, the authors explain how to use AI to play games, to generate content for games and to model players.