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AI Developers Are Wasting Time Writing Code When They Should Be Crafting Behaviors

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Developing a multiplayer game? You need smart bot AI.

The quality of bot AI can significantly influence your game's success. But what makes ‘good’ bot AI? And what do studios risk if they don’t get it right? Read More

How to Add Flying AI Agents to Any Game in Unreal Engine

How to use the Kythera AI toolset to easily add agents that move skillfully through complex environments and around dynamic obstacles to your 3D game in Unreal Engine. Read More

How to Create Dynamic Game Play on Moving Platforms

Easily create moving navigation mesh without using complex scripts, temporary workarounds or resource heavy mesh regeneration. Read More

Navigating Uncharted Waters with Moving NavMesh

The team at Kythera AI is excited to now be able to offer the new Moving NavMesh feature. Read More

How to Make a Horror Game Level with Kythera AI Surface Navigation

We’re diving into a behind-the-scenes look at how we used Surface Navigation to make our horror level and gameplay demo - and how easy it is for your studio to use Kythera AI in your own game. Read More

How To Create Immersive Nightmares

Bring Their Fears to Life Read More

NPC AI: More than “Ice Cream so Good”

NPC behaviors have become enmeshed in our cultural shorthand - so what do good NPC behaviors look like? We turned to the Kythera team to ask about some of their most impactful experiences with NPC AI. Read More

Plunge into the AI of Aquanox Deep Descent

A behind the scenes deep dive into the AI powering the post-apocalyptic underwater FPS. Read More

Kythera AI @ GDC '23

Sharing our experience at the Game Developer's Conference in 2023 Read More

Unleashing Creative Play in Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem

Freed from the constraints of canned scripting, Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem delivers a level of spontaneous gameplay previously unknown in its genre. Kythera’s adaptive AI offers the perfect channel for the player’s ingenuity – meaning in-game problems can have creative solutions that even the designers never dreamed of. With Kythera, a challenge need never have a single “right answer”. Read More

Star Citizen: Focus on Dogfighting

In this set of videos, we look under the hood of the Alpha release, to see how Kythera AI is delivering the flexibility and efficiency that Star Citizen’s ambition demands. Read More

The Formations of Wolcen

In this article we’ll take an in-depth look at one particular AI feature that helped bridge the gap from classic RTS and RPG gameplay to a new ARPG experience: formations. Read More

Deep Descent dive into 3D navigation in Unreal Engine

Working with publisher Nordic Games and developer Digital Arrow, Kythera AI middleware pilots submarines through a perilous undersea landscape in the partly crowd-funded title Aquanox: Deep Descent. Read More

An Endlessly Adaptive World in Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem

Before Kythera, something as simple as opening a gate presented a full-blown AI programming task. But Wolcen's developers pictured a truly interactive open world – and they wanted to deliver it without extensive, time-consuming scripting. With Kythera’s automatic behavior trees and dynamic navigation, they found the tool they needed to bring their vision to life. Read More