AI is revolutionizing game development by enabling intelligent, dynamic NPC behavior. This course starts with AI fundamentals, covering vectors, pathfinding, and physics-based movement. You’ll explore key techniques like the A* algorithm, navigation meshes, and state machines to program characters that react realistically. Hands-on coding exercises reinforce core AI concepts in real-world applications. Advancing further, you’ll dive into behavior trees, GOAP, and crowd simulation to create NPCs that patrol, chase, and evade. You’ll develop AI-driven vehicles, simulate lifelike agent interactions, and implement steering behaviors for natural movement. The curriculum also covers finite state machines, graph-based AI, and procedural decision-making, ensuring a strong foundation in AI-driven game mechanics. By the end of this course, you’ll have built AI systems that bring NPCs and vehicles to life across multiple game genres. Whether designing open-world adventures, RTS games, or AI-driven simulations, you’ll gain essential skills to create immersive, responsive AI. Through structured learning and real-world projects, this course ensures both theoretical depth and practical mastery of AI-driven game development.