Artificial Intelligence.

[Nabeel Rehman]

Hi guys, i'm making a tank game in which i need some type of AI to control my enemy tanks i.e they move on their on and fire on their on, I've never done some thing like this before so i have no idea where to start. If you guys could suggest me something related to Artificial Intelligence to start with i'll be very thankful.

[Elias Daler]

Programming AI by example is a perfect start.
Tutorials from this blog are pretty great as well.
And if you still don't have enough information, check out this book too.

[GameBear]

Hey, I agree fully with Elias.
The book suggested is a great entry point...

One thing that could be important is to figure what kind of Ai you want... How important is "natural" dessisions?
On one end you could just use a state machine. (see enemy? Yes -> attack, no -> next question!)
On the other end you could run a small neural network (or an advanced one)

But some questions...
What are your knowledge of programming?
Any ai knowledge?
Have you made other games or game parts before?
Is this a top down or side view tank game?

And much more...
Best regards.

[Sub]

Programming AI by example is a perfect start.

This is a fantastic book. 

For pathfinding, this was helpful to me in the past. 

On a final note, two years ago I wrote a quick post explaining how I made a Tetris AI here.  Not the most relevant thing for most games, but for Tetris it was surprisingly effective