80days booth at the Montreal International Game Summit 08 (MIGS08)

By: Daniel Schwarz

takomat presents 80days' Character engine within the MIGS 2008 in Montreal, Canada.

Montreal, Canada – November 17, 2008: takomat presents its new real-time Character-Animation Technology phenome^TM within the MIGS (Montreal International Game Summit 2008 - http://www.sijm.ca/2008/en). Come and see us on November 18/19 at our booth Nr. 330 in Palais des congrès Montreal.

For the first time phenome^TM animates in real-time and semiautomatic a psychological and physical convincing behaviour for virtual characters in virtual worlds, that has required a manual animation so far. So the previous contrast in the production of videogames, either time and money consuming or to produce with cogent characters, is suspended.

phenome^TM  is currently in application within the European research project „80 days“(www.eightydays.eu) and here it guarantees a convincing account of „virtual teachers“ inside a virtual world.

The previous takomat research in the area of „serious games“ (www.elektra-project.org) has shown that youngsters are able to learn well than with traditional teaching aids, when the virtual characters in a virtual learning environment behave emotional and authentic.

Therefore takomat applies phenome^TM  for the operation of characters in learning games.