Xaitment
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xaitment is a German-based company that develops and sells artificial intelligence (AI) software to video game developers and simulation developers. The company was founded in 2004 by Dr. Andreas Gerber, and is a spin-off of the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, or DFKI
. xaitment has its main office in Quierschied, Germany, and field offices in San Francisco and China.
and graphical tools for navigation mesh
generation (also called NavMesh generation), pathfinding
, dynamic collision avoidance, and individual and crowd movement. xaitControl is a Finite State Machine
for game logic and character behavior modeling
that also includes a real-time debugger. xaitment also sells xaitMap and xaitControl as a bundle to independent game studios.
xaitment also has two other products in development: xaitKnow and xaitThink. xaitKnow provides digital characters with a knowledge base about their environment. xaitThink establishes rules-based behavior modeling based on the knowledge base in xaitKnow.
All products are available for PC (Windows and Linux), PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii.
game engine.
German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz , lit. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, is one of the world's largest nonprofit contract research institutes in the field of innovative software technology based on Artificial Intelligence methods.DFKI was founded in 1988...
. xaitment has its main office in Quierschied, Germany, and field offices in San Francisco and China.
Products
xaitment currently sells two AI software modules: xaitMap and xaitControl. xaitMap provides runtime librariesRuntime library
In computer programming, a runtime library is a special program library used by a compiler, to implement functions built into a programming language, during the execution of a computer program...
and graphical tools for navigation mesh
Navigation mesh
A navigation mesh is an abstract data structure used in artificial intelligence applications to aid agents in path-finding through large spaces...
generation (also called NavMesh generation), pathfinding
Pathfinding
Pathfinding generally refers to the plotting, by a computer application, of the shortest route between two points. It is a more practical variant on solving mazes...
, dynamic collision avoidance, and individual and crowd movement. xaitControl is a Finite State Machine
Finite state machine
A finite-state machine or finite-state automaton , or simply a state machine, is a mathematical model used to design computer programs and digital logic circuits. It is conceived as an abstract machine that can be in one of a finite number of states...
for game logic and character behavior modeling
Behavioral modeling
In behavioral science, system theory and dynamic systems modeling, a behavioral model reproduces the required behavior of the original analyzed system, such as there is a one-to-one correspondence between the behavior of the original system and the simulated system. That namely implies that the...
that also includes a real-time debugger. xaitment also sells xaitMap and xaitControl as a bundle to independent game studios.
xaitment also has two other products in development: xaitKnow and xaitThink. xaitKnow provides digital characters with a knowledge base about their environment. xaitThink establishes rules-based behavior modeling based on the knowledge base in xaitKnow.
All products are available for PC (Windows and Linux), PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii.
Partners
xaitment's AI software is currently integrated into GameBase's GamebryoGamebryo
Gamebryo is a game engine, originally from Numerical Design Limited , and the successor to NDL's NetImmerse engine.Since the creation of Gamebryo, NDL merged into Emergent Game Technologies...
game engine.