Kiwi

Founded in 1986, Ubisoft Entertainment is the third-largest video game publisher in the world and the leading European publisher. To enhance the player experience, Ubisoft aims to immerse players in deep, long-lasting gaming experiences.

The KIWI project thus seeks to address technological challenges across several interconnected fields related to real-time scalable interactive simulation automation and player behavior analysis.

This R&D project aims to overcome key technological obstacles critical to Ubisoft for the development of large-scale digital simulations, their scalability, and their real-time adaptability to both players and external disruptions.

To achieve this, the project focuses on:

• Facilitating the creation and management of complex worlds, with large-scale, playable online environments;

• Producing an infinite amount of high-quality gameplay content (infrastructure, activities, scripted content) through procedural generation to populate these worlds;

• Enhancing quality (of both code and data) through automation methods and Machine Learning, which are increasingly necessary due to the massive growth of generated data;

• Improving the understanding of players and their behavior, and adapting content to their preferences.

It also aims to:

• Ensure compatibility with leading industry tools (such as Maya, 3ds Max, etc.), as well as Ubisoft’s internal tools;

• Develop tools tailored to user needs, thanks to extensive research into ergonomics and usability;

• Guarantee scalable technologies that can easily incorporate new features over time.