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Paris, France – September 4, 2006 - Kynogon, the leading A.I. middleware developer, has announced today that SEGA has licensed Kynapse to develop its million-seller title, Sonic on Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION3.

Since his birth 15 years ago, Sonic The Hedgehog has been a phenomenal mass-market success. More than 44 million units have been sold worldwide. The legendary Sonic mascot is one of the most recognized and celebrated video game characters of all.

"We are very proud to be working with SEGA on an icon title like Sonic for next generation platforms", said Pierre Pontevia, CEO for Kynogon. "As one of the true leaders of the industry, SEGA sets the tone for game development. It is a great opportunity and a true recognition for Kynogon to work on a next generation title with them."

About SEGA Corporation

SEGA Corporation is a worldwide leader in interactive entertainment both inside and outside the home, encompassing consumer business, amusement machine sales and amusement center operations. The company develops, publishes and distributes interactive entertainment software products for a variety of hardware platforms including PC, wireless devices, and those manufactured by Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. SEGA Corporation's Web site is located at http://sega.jp.

About Kynogon

Kynogon develops and markets A.I. software for real-time behavior simulation. Kynogon's technology is used by the world's leading game developers (Electronic Arts, Atari, Real Time Worlds, Lionhead Studios, Pyro Studios, Majesco, Artificial Mind and Movement, ...) as well as industry leaders (EADS, British Aerospace, ...) Kynogon has 6 years experience providing AI production solutions for the games industry, working with our clients from preproduction to gold master. The company's latest offering is Kynapse, a unique A.I. engine. With Kynapse, Non Player Characters can move around in any 3D dynamic world, understand their environment, hide, communicate, cooperate, drive vehicles, etc. For more information please visit www.kynogon.com.

http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/action/sonicth...tml?sid=6157076

So apparently Sega's handed off the baton to a aritficial intelligence company.

Hey, awesome, more environmental physics in Sonic the Hedgehog.

im hoping this was the right move and wont dig sonic in a deeper grave DX

This post has been edited by OSM on Sep 5 2006, 09:22 PM

I'm sorry, but doesn't this game work solely off the Havok physics engine? Does this developer have any affiliation with Havok?

Who mentioned anything about physics?

Silver the hedgehog's stages will be "blow-s***-up" based

I often don't read an entire press release about something I think I get the gist of--it doesn't look like Yoshiman nor I did, however.

"Environmental physics" sounds like something that Havok could entirely handle, so that's where my assumption derived from.

ai != physics

Oh, so then I was correct?

These mixed messages are...mixing me up!

This post has been edited by Gyiyg Strikes Back! on Sep 5 2006, 09:45 PM

Correct in a world of make believe.

"!=" is not equal if you were confused about that

Is it some sort of bizzare comparison operator? Because if it is then I've never even heard of it.

You'll be using a lot of those in comp sci this year

it's not bizzare, ! means "not" which you'd know if you took a programming class and they might teach it in some math classes or something so != means not equal k

What the hell sort of programming are we talking about? Python?

any language i can think of