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jQuery is a leading multi-browser JavaScript library that developers across the world utilize on a daily basis to help simplify client-side scripting. Using the friendly and powerful jQuery to create games based on DOM manipulations and CSS transforms allows you to target a vast array of browsers and devices without having to worry about individual peculiarities. jQuery Game Development Essentials will teach you how to use the environment, language, and framework that you're familiar with in an entirely new way so that you can create beautiful and addictive games. With concrete examples and detailed technical explanations you will learn how to apply game development techniques in a highly practical context.

This book is meant to help you to incorporate various Artifiial Intelligence techniques into your games. We will discuss decision techniques such as Finite State Machines and Behavior Trees. We will also look at movement, obstacle avoidance, and flcking. We also show how to follow a path, how to create a path using the A* pathfiding algorithm, and then how to reach a destination using a navigation mesh. As a bonus we will go into detail about random and probability, and then incorporate these ideas into a fial project.