xaitment’s new educational pricing and a partnership with Studica makes it easier for students to learn advanced game AI
Quierschied, Germany – August 21, 2012 – xaitment, the creators of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) software for video game and simulation developers, today announced that it has launched new Educational Pricing for it’s Unity plug-ins and will be partnering with Studica to help with distribution. Starting today, universities, other educational institutions and individual students around the world can get both packages, xaitMap and xaitControl for Unity, at greatly discounted prices.
”Students are the foundation of our game development future, and AI is a growing area of interest for game development,” said Mike Walsh, CEO of xaitment. “We looked at several different options for making our products available to the educational market and Studica was the obvious choice. Studica has a worldwide reach and they are already partnering with some of our closest partners.”
“Studica is excited to add xaitment to our offering for the education market. We are always looking for the most progressive software and xaitment fits in perfectly with our initiative to bring game design to students in the classroom and at home.” Frank Nanfara, Studica President and CEO.
The intuitive interface of xaitment’s products, and the visual editors for NavMesh generation, pathfinding, movement, character behavioral model and game logic, were designed to get new and established developers up and running quickly with game AI development. Those same product principles, coupled with more attractive educational pricing, will help game development students learn advanced AI techniques before they enter the job market.
xaitment’s AI software sprang from the labs of the renowned German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, and the company has continued to work closely with universities around the world. Some of its educational partners include SMU Guildhall, the Institute of Technology in Carlow, The University of Advancing Technology, and the University of Saarland.
To take advantage of the new Educational Pricing, educational institutions can either contact xaitment or visit the Studica website (www.studica.com).
About xaitment GmbH / Inc.
Founded in Germany in 2004 as an offshoot of the renowned German Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (DHKI), xaitment creates and sells artificial intelligence (AI) software to video game and simulation developers. Its full products are optimized for Windows®, Linux®, Xbox360®, and PLAYSTATION®3. xaitment also offers plug-ins for Unity 3D that are available via its webstore. All of xaitment’s AI software enables developers, through runtime libraries and easy-to-use graphical user editors, to create automatic navigation mesh builds, intelligent movement behaviors, crowd simulations, and hierarchical probabilistic finite state machines for realistic game logic and character behavioral modeling. More information on xaitment can be found on www.xaitment.com, Twitter (@xaitTicker), Facebook and YouTube (xaitChannel).
About Studica
Studica is the
education source for software and technology products. Studica offers academic software at significant discounts to Students, Faculty and Schools. Utilizing a focused approach, Studica has outside and inside sales personnel, and an intuitive e-commerce site, an informative blog, Facebook, Pinterest, Google+ and Twitter feeds that work effectively together to serve the education community. Serving local and world education markets Studica has offices in the US, Canada, UK, Brazil, Greece, Denmark, Hungary, Australia, Mexico, and India with more planned in the near future.
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