Review of basic AI technologies and principles, and how they can be employed in computer, board, and embodied games. Comparison between mainstream AI and game AI. Specific topics addressed include pathfinding in games, heuristic search in game playing, map representational mechanisms, and character decision making. Areas of agent learning including reinforcement learning as applied to games will be introduced. Other topics of interest include procedural content generation and general game AI. The related areas of artificial life and robotics will be touched upon.