Alien: Isolation
2 documents in the library are about Alien: Isolation, from writers such as AI and Games and Sega Sammy Holdings, the newest from 2020. Each has a summary and key insights with the page they come from.
Alien: Isolation is a survival horror game based on the Alien franchise. As Amanda Ripley, daughter of Ellen Ripley, you will navigate through an increasingly volatile world as you find yourself confronted on all sides by a panicked population and an unpredictable Alien. You must scavenge resources, improvise solutions and use your wits, not just to succeed in your mission but to simply stay alive. In addition to the main story mode there's Survivor mode in which the player needs to escape from a specially designed map fulfilling secondary objectives along the way, while being aggressively hunted by the alien. This mode includes online leaderboards.
- Released
- Oct 6, 2014
- Developer
- The Creative Assembly
- Publishers
- Feral Interactive, Sega
- Genres
- Adventure
- Platforms
- PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
- Links
- Wikipedia
Game data from IGDB.com
Documents about Alien: Isolation
Revisiting the AI of Alien: Isolation
The artificial intelligence systems powering the xenomorph in Alien: Isolation remain a benchmark for non-player character design in the video game industry.
- The Xenomorph’s behavior is governed by a complex tree architecture featuring 36 distinct branches, allowing it to perform actions ranging from hunting and investigating to fleeing from fire.
- An AI-director system manages game pacing by tracking both the player and the Xenomorph, periodically nudging the creature toward the player's general vicinity without revealing their exact location.
- The Xenomorph utilizes four distinct vision cones—normal, focused, peripheral, and close—each with specific range and width parameters to ensure it can detect players even at very close proximity.
Sega Sammy FY Ended March 2015 Full Year Results Presentation
Sega Sammy experienced a challenging fiscal year ending in March 2015, characterized by a year-on-year decline in both sales and profits.
- Sega Sammy reported a year-on-year decline in sales and profits for the fiscal year ending March 2015, driven primarily by a significant contraction in pachislot machine unit sales.
- The company recorded a net loss due to substantial extraordinary costs incurred from group-wide structural reforms, including business unit consolidation and cost-reduction measures.
- Structural reforms are projected to reduce fixed expenses by 6 billion yen in the following fiscal year.