Licencing & Support

Licencing Options

We offer our middleware through a variety of licence models made to fit your usage, budget, and business model.

Premium Licence (AA/Triple-I/AAA)

For large or well-funded studios, we recommend our Premium full-source licence, enabling larger teams to build more complex game AI across multiple platforms. For any publishers or studios interested in an extended Premium Licence to cover various projects, please contact us for more information.

Standard Licence (Indie)

Indie studios with experienced AI engineers can use our Standard licence for an upfront fee, with no royalties, allowing them to extend our core features as required for their game. A Royalties model may be available for this licence, with early buy-out and late buy-down options.

Contact us for more details.

Binary Licence (Small Indie)

Our Binary licences are also available for a small upfront fee with Royalties due above a minimum earnings threshold. This is ideal for small indie studios or start-ups who want the best possible AI for their game, but have uncertain funding.

Contact us if this type of licence would be of interest to you.

Non-commercial Licences (O3DE)

As founding members of the Open 3D Foundation, we’ve been working to give back to the games development community for some time now. Our first platform for this is the Open 3D Engine, where the Kythera AI Gem is available now to download under the terms of our Community Licence.

It offers commercial use based on royalty, with a buyout option - and it’s also free for non-commercial use.

Our Service & Support Products

Whether you are the AI lead for a major studio using our middleware to help develop your next AAA chart-topping hit, or a student using our tools as part of your project work - at some point you may consider seeking our assistance to help keep your project on track.

Maybe it’s just the latest update from us which keeps the middleware running when there’s an engine update, or you might have decided to de-risk a whole branch of development by getting our expert AI team to develop it for you - whatever the scale of your needs we have a service & support mechanism that will work for you.

User Forum

This is our entry point for all users on our Licences, the Forum is a community space that allows users to help each other and lets us keep you informed about future releases and new products.

  • Membership free to all licenced users of our middleware

  • Peer-to-peer support

  • Roadmap announcements

  • Annual updates to binary releases

    Basic Support

For users of our binary versions looking for more regular updates and access to our ticketed Helpdesk:

  • Only available for Binary licencee

  • Access to documentation for advanced users

  • Software updates to binary when available

  • Ticketed support for product advice only

    Contact us for more information about Basic Support.

    Standard Support

For studios seeking assurance around the maintenance of their technical stack we offer:

  • Access to our documentation for advanced users

  • Software updates to binary or source when available

  • Named Relationship Manager

  • Regular planning meetings - every 3 months

  • Ticketed support including tracing/fixing of critical/major bugs

  • Discount on Rate Card for additional services

    Premium Services & Support

For teams developing AA/AAA projects who want to work collaboratively to optimize the implementation of our features into their build we offer:

  • Access to documentation for advanced users

  • Software updates when available

  • Named Project Manager

  • Ticketed support including tracing/fixing of critical/major bugs

  • Regular planning meetings - every 3 months

  • Regular sync-up/support meetings - up to every 2 weeks

  • Fixed allocation of coding credits per year for minor feature extensions

  • Discount on Rate Card for additional services

    This support is only available to our full source code licencees. Contact us for more information about our Premium Service & Support.

VIP Services & Support

For teams developing AA/AAA projects who want us to work closely with them to use our middleware as the foundation for amazing new AI capabilities we offer:

  • Access to documentation for advanced user

  • Software updates when available

  • Dedicated Project Manager

  • Ticketed support including tracing/fixing of critical/major bugs

  • Regular planning meetings - every month

  • Regular sync-up/support meetings - up to every week

  • People Plan of coding credits per month for feature extensions

  • Discount on Rate Card for additional services

    This support package is only available to full source code licencees. Contact us for more information about our VIP Service & Support.