NPC AI in Everquest Next, similar to Sui Generis?

[calithlin]

So it seems that Sony has partnered with Storybricks, a games AI company specializing in modular behavioral NPC AI and interaction, in order to create the NPC behaviors for Everquest Next (a sandbox MMO set in the Everquest universe, due within a year or two).

Apparently, the idea is to create a system very similar to what Sui Generis is looking to create: NPCs that can be truly role-played with and that drive story based on their actual 'lives' and perception of the player.

You can read more in this article from The Tattered Notebook:
http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/04/27/tattered-notebook-eq-next-and-storybricks-sitting-in-a-tree/

 

[Fawz]

Information about Everquest next has been sparse, but from all that I've heard it's looking like they're not looking to milk the EQ IP for cash. The goal seems to be to reinvigorate the stale MMO genre and make a true sandbox MMORPG that is successful.