Kynogon, le fournisseur de solutions middleware d'intelligence artificielle confirme que Kynapse est actuellement utilisé par Ascaron Entertainment pour le développement de la suite de Sacred, le RPG - action au succès international. Ci-dessous le communiqué de presse en anglais.

Ascaron Entertainment utilizes Kynapse to create “Sacred 2”

Paris, France – September 27, 2005 – Kynogon, the leading supplier of A.I. middleware solutions, confirmed today that Kynapse is being used by Ascaron Entertainment to develop the sequel to the internationally successful action-based RPG, Sacred.

The critically acclaimed Sacred has received extensive praise, and is the winner of the prestigious “Best Role Playing Game 2004” PC GAMER award. In May 2005 Ascaron announced that it had started the development of Sacred 2.

"Kynapse was integrated into our game quickly and smoothly. We can now focus entirely on the high level behavior of our creatures, since Kynapse handles all our pathing and low level behavior out-of-the-box.” said Kay Struve, Technical Director at Ascaron Entertainment.

Pierre Pontevia, Kynogon CEO explains, "We are very proud to participate in the development of a AAA title like Sacred 2. We look forward to addressing the specific needs of Ascaron so that they deliver a great game and exceed the expectations of their world wide fans.”

Ascaron also demonstrates that Kynapse is a truly multi-genre technology. As an example, Kynogon complete 3D pathfinding solutions meet the action-adventure, FPS, RPG and RTS / strategy game requirements. It handles very large maps with lots of NPCs via a unique 3D hierarchical pathfinding compatible with streaming mechanisms and next generation console architectures. Kynapse technology takes into account path computation constraints such as furtiveness as well as dynamic evolutions of the terrain. Furthermore, an automatic data generator significantly accelerates production and avoids manual processing.