Ubisoft has announced a new prototype system that contains AIs controlled by AI TEAMETS that understand visual context and natural language. This “group team” project builds on the Neo NPCS Ubisoft showed with Nvidia in 2024 to DEMO in-game ai that can respond naturally to players. The main difference this time, apart from the difficulty of the supported prototype support, is that the teammates are already played in a closed game “several players,” said ubisoft.
Teamplayers, even if Ubisoft describes it as an “experimental experiment,” still uses the basic concepts of a first-person shooter. The prototype puts the players as a “member of the resistance in the Dystopian future, tasked with going through the enemy’s base to find five missing members of their group,” where the guiding AI characters are the key to success. Ubisoft came up with three AI NPCs for the project, “japar,” an AI assistant with awareness of the game’s settings and “Pablo” and “Sofia,” sofias who are physically present and can respond to commands.
JASPAR IS ALL FOR EVERYONE AND THE BEST STORAGE FOR THE CHURCH. (Ubisoft)
Based on FookAge shared with Engadget, UBISOFT’s AI characters not only understand voice commands, but also have visual awareness of what the player sees. The instruction to “stand behind the barrel” prompted Sofia to consider where the player was looking and position herself correctly. In the form of pumptates partners available in closed play, Ubisoft also uses japar to onboard and teach players about the basics of the game. In many cases, the AI characters seemed overly chatty and verbose, but ubisoft is trying to allow players to choose sets of personalities for Sofia and Pablo – including an option called “bad boy” – that can change how each character is portrayed.
“This technology opens the doors to new, personalized experiences,” Ubisoft’s Data & AI Director Rémi Leafer shared in the announcement. “Inclusion of the player’s character at the right time, something that traditional development can not achieve. We have also brought a full pipeline, with an experience that takes players from onboef, which is the first.”
Ubisoft has intended to use artificial intelligence in other parts of the development process in the past. The company’s Ghostwriter tool, launched in 2023, uses AI to generate first drafts of In-Game dialogue. Ubisoft recently agreed to publish Anno 117: The Pax Romana Without removing its AI generated creativity.
Finally, the technology behind the super powerful technology could appear in other Ubisoft projects in the future. The company is collecting feedback from its gameplay to work on future research, but Ubisoft suggests that Middleware has been developed for purmmates who already work with both snow engines and anvil, opening the tool for future teams to use in their games.
