Kynapse

Autodesk Kynapse
Original author(s)	Kynogon
Developer(s)	Autodesk
Development status	Discontinued
Platform	PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Wii^[1], Wii U^[2]
Type	Middleware
License	Proprietary commercial software
Website	gameware.autodesk.com/kynapse

Kynapse is the artificial intelligence middleware product, developed by Kynogon, which was bought by Autodesk in 2008 and is since called Autodesk Kynapse.

Features

A complete 3D pathfinding
An automatic AI data generation tool
Optimizations for multicore/multiprocessing/Cell architectures
Spatial reasoning
Streaming mechanisms to handle very large terrains
The management of dynamic and destructible terrains

Usage

Kynapse has been used in the development of more than 80 game titles including Mafia II, Crackdown,^[3] Alone in the Dark 5,^[4] Fable II, Medal of Honor: Airborne, Sacred 2: Fallen Angel, Watchmen: The End Is Nigh, Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar^[5] and the Unreal engine. Kynapse is also being used by companies such as EADS,^[6] BAE Systems or Électricité de France to develop military or industrial simulation.

References

External links

Official website

Game engines (list)

Free and
open-source

2D	Adventure Game Studio Beats of Rage Cocos2d Flixel Jogre KiriKiri libGDX Moai OHRRPGCE OpenFL ORX Pygame Ren'Py Stratagus Thousand Parsec VASSAL Xconq

2.5D	Aleph One Cube

3D	Away3D Blender Game Cafu Crystal Space Cube 2 Delta3D Dim3 GLScene Horde3D HPL 1 Irrlicht id Tech 3 id Tech 4 JMonkey OGRE Open Wonderland Panda3D Papervision3D Platinum Arts Sandbox Free 3D Game Maker PlayCanvas PLIB Quake Quake II RealmForge Retribution Torque 3D

Mix	Allegro Construct Classic Godot Lightweight Java Game Library Spring Wintermute Engine

Proprietary

2D	Construct 2 Corona Clickteam Fusion GameMaker: Studio GameSalad M.U.G.E.N NScripter RPG Maker Southpaw Stencyl UbiArt Framework Vicious Virtual Theatre V-Play Zillions of Games

3D	4A Amazon Lumberyard Anvil Bork3D C4 Chrome Clausewitz Engine Creation CryEngine Crystal Tools Decima Diesel Dunia EAGL EGO Elflight Enforce Enigma Essence Flare3D Fox Frostbite Geo-Mod GoldSrc HeroEngine HydroEngine HPL 2-3 id Tech 5 id Tech 6 Ignite IW Jade Kinetica LS3D LithTech Luminous Studio LyN Marmalade Mizuchi MT Framework Outerra Panta Rhei PhyreEngine Q Real Virtuality REDengine Refractor Riot RAGE SAGE Serious Shark 3D ShiVa Silent Storm Source Titan TOSHI Truevision3D Unigine Unity Unreal Vision Visual3D XnGine X-Ray YETI Zero

Mix	Gamebryo Hybrid Graphics Kaneva Game Platform Metismo

Historical interest

Proprietary
middleware
(list)

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