Mercuna now works with Unity! Over the last month we have been hard at work integrating Mercuna with the Unity game engine. There is a long list of small features to be finished off, but the core of it is done and we have agents flying around Unity levels. When we first started writing Mercuna,..
There are some people out there who, for some weird reason, actually enjoy ‘networking’. These oddballs actually get a kick from talking about nothing, for hours, with total strangers and then they somehow become best friends with them. Well, this post is for the rest of us. The introverts. The people who can think of..
8 Things Every Startup Should Do At GDC You know, I love GDC. We spend so much of our working time staring into code, that it’s actually nice to meet-up and share that buzz with like-minded people. With over 20,000 attendees, it is easily the biggest conference for games professionals anywhere in the world, and..
We originally wrote Mercuna with PC and consoles in mind, but recently we got asked about whether Mercuna ran on Android. The enquiry was through an evaluation request, and my initial response was going to be no, it wasn’t something we had ever tried. However, I decided it was first worth looking to see how..
We are pleased to announce the release of version 0.9 of Mercuna. This is a significant move forward from version 0.8, with two new major features and wide ranging refactor. We had intended for 0.9 to be a modest step forward, but we soon realised that with a bit more work we could pack in..
When I talk to my non-gaming friends (there are a few…well ok, I’m using ‘friends’ loosely here), I often talk about our work writing 3D navigation for AI. They all have the same two questions: Aren’t all games 3D? And how do you have robots in games? Let’s put our collective coffees down and forget..
The biggest story in the tech world over the last week has been the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities. So what are they, and how will the fixes for them impact games? This post will focus on the Meltdown attack as the implications of that are more serious and we’ve seen that the patches coming..
A new feature that I have been working on recently and that I am very excited about is our new spline based steering system. We wanted to solve the problem of jerky movement and agents occasionally sliding off paths and hitting walls, and to have more natural looking movement. We want agents to take the..
In this post, I am going into a bit more technical detail about how you can create your own custom EQS tests. One of Unreal Engine’s slightly hidden AI features is its Environmental Query System (EQS). The system is still considered experimental so is not enabled by default, but can easily be switched on in..
“When can we have a ship flying through a hole in a rotating asteroid?” – That was one of the first questions that Chris Roberts asked us when we started working on Star Citizen. We had been tasked with creating the dogfighting AI for this record breaking crowdfunded space sim, and as with all of..
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