SimBionic

SimBionic is an award-winning toolset for creating intelligent behaviors for simulations, games, and other interactive systems quickly and easily, without programming. These behaviors specify how simulated people, systems, and other entities respond to user actions and other events. SimBionic lets you specify smarter behaviors that would be too costly or difficult to develop using traditional programming methods, to build applications that are more realistic, challenging, and engaging.

SimBionic is composed of three basic components - a visual editor for authoring AI behavior, a state-of-the-art runtime engine for executing that behavior, and an interactive debugger for tracking down any problems with your behaviors.

Using the SimBionic visual editor, you can specify decision-making logic with exceptional ease by drawing it as flowchart-like diagrams. This highly intuitive visual approach makes it possible for the less technical members of your team – whether they be content designers, managers, or subject matter experts – to fully participate in the AI development process.

The SimBionic runtime engine is a C++ or Java module that uses the AI behaviors you create in the visual editor to dynamically control characters, objects, or entities within your application. The runtime engine provides an API that is both lightweight, for rapid integration with your application, and flexible, allowing you to choose exactly when SimBionic will run and how it will allocate resources.

Finally, the SimBionic interactive debugger is a full-featured debugging environment that enables you to find and fix bugs in your behavior logic by peering inside a running copy of the SimBionic runtime engine. With the SimBionic debugger, you can walk through a behavior step by step, inspecting data values and setting breakpoints to help track down subtle mistakes.

SimBionic Community Edition

Now you can use SimBionic for free! SimBionic Community Edition is a feature-limited release perfect for non-commercial projects with less complex AI requirements.