FIT3094 Lecture Note List

FIT3094 : AI for Gaming

Provisional Schedule
Semester 1, Caulfield Campus, 2011

Dates on which lectures are covered may vary depending on speed of progress through the material.

Weeks	Lectures	Exercises & assignments
1	Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (5Mb) & Artificial Life (12Mb)	no laboratory class in week 1 so homework: Introduction to Unix Tutorials.
2	A history of Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life in games (17Mb)	lab sheet 1 (Noughts and crosses)
3	The interactive game loop, Finite State Automata and agent decision making	lab sheet 2 (Pacman)
4	Basic search algorithms	lab sheet 3 (GLUT programming) GL_routines.cpp, GL_routines.h, main.cpp
5	Vectors and Steering behaviour	lab sheet 4 (Grid-world search)
6	Cooperative strategies for agent behaviour	assignment 1 time (download Pirates v2.1!)
7	Mid-course revision and assignment discussion	assignment 1 demo time (see: due dates)
8	Growing realistic plants and forests (18Mb)	lab sheet 5 (Vectors)
mid-semester break (week starting 25 April 2011)
9	Artificial Evolution	lab sheet 6 (Flocking)
10	Virtual ecosystems	assignment 2 time (download Pirate Fleet v2.0)
11	A* Search algorithm	assignment 2 time
12	Neural Networks (2Mb), Expert and rule-based systems info.	assignment 2 demo time (see: due dates)