hydropulse17

I'm an indie game developer, or aspiring to be one, and I've decided to get a book on artificial intelligence. I want to know which book I should get if I have no experience writing AI. I'd prefer a book with a focus on Video Game AI, and either a C# language bias or no language at all, but very few of the books I've looked at mention any languages in their descriptions. I was looking at Programming Game AI by Example, but it uses C++ and I'm not confident that I'm knowledgeable enough to apply the same concepts to my own code. My primary interest is Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, as it uses pseudo-code, seems to be very comprehensive and "It is considered the standard text in the field of artificial intelligence" according to the wiki. I'm just afraid it would be way over my head and even if it isn't I'm afraid I won't be able to apply what I learn to my games.

I've been making programs for a long time. I started with Game Maker when I was a kid, eventually I started learning to program in C++ in High School and I learned a lot of core concepts. I was learning C# and XNA for a short while, but I've been working with Unity C# for a couple years now. I'd say I'm maybe an intermediate level programmer, but recently I feel like I'm relying on too much code that other people wrote. Nearly everything I write for Unity depends on the Unity Engine and the System namespaces. A mentor once told me that I didn't need to reinvent the wheel, but I feel like I'm being dressed every morning and driven to work, if you know what I mean. I want to understand, at least to some degree, How Unity reads my code, and how it communicates with my operating system, and how that communicates with my computer. I'm not looking for Masters in Computer Science, but I was hoping that I could read a book or two and understand well enough the work beneath me so I can at least appreciate it more. If you guys could point me in a direction or perhaps recommend some books, I'd appreciate it.