Mercuna develops advanced AI navigation middleware for games
Mercuna develops advanced AI navigation middleware for games
Registered Name:
Mercuna Developments Limited
Founding Date:
12 September 2016
Website:
www.mercuna.com
Press / Business Contact:
[email protected]
Social:
Twitter @MercunaDev
Facebook
LinkedIn
Vimeo
Address:
CodeBase
3 Lady Lawson Street
Edinburgh
EH3 9DR, UK
Phone:
+44 (0)131 290 2288
Mercuna is an independent software development company co-founded by Ben Lowing and Michael Bell. Mercuna develops and licenses advanced AI navigation middleware to game developers.
The company was founded in 2016 with the aim to provide games studios with powerful, but easy to use tools, letting developers focus on creating the games they want and not having to waste time building the underlying tech.
Mercuna 3D Navigation, the company’s first product, was released in 2018, and allows games to add flying and swimming AI that can navigate around complex 3D environments. It is a complete 3D navigation system that handles pathfinding, steering, movement and dynamic obstacle avoidance.
Mercuna Ground Navigation, the company’s new innovative ground navigation middleware for AI characters, vehicles and animals in games, was released in December 2020. Vehicles and animals are usually limited in their accelerations and turn-rates and as a result require a more complicated method of pathfinding than the standard one used for characters. The development of this project was supported by an Epic Games MegaGrant.
3D Navigation
Ground Navigation
Ben Lowing
CEO, Founder
Michael Bell
CTO, Founder
Peter Creasey
Developer
Eddy Larkin
Developer
Stuart Buchanan
Operations Manager
Stefanos Ntailakis
QA
Enquiries
[email protected]
Phone
+44 (0)131 290 2288
Twitter
twitter.com/MercunaDev
Facebook
facebook.com/mercuna
Web
mercuna.com