How it works

This is our platform in a live environment. The flow is a seamless, real-time loop that brings the character to life.

  1. The player speaks. Our Foundry-Toolkit captures the voice command and instantly translates it into text.

  2. This text is fed into the 'Soul' Engine, the character's core intelligence. The 'Soul' uses its persistent Memory, Knowledge, and Character to understand the context and generate an original, living response.

  3. The Foundry-Toolkit completes the loop, translating the 'Soul's' text into both realistic speech and real-time facial animation for the NPC.

The Soul

The Soul is the living, persistent mind of your character. It's an advanced, on-device AI designed to move beyond scripts and engage in truly emergent behaviour.

We've architected the Soul as three distinct components: you provide the Context (the director's notes), the Memory (the lived experience), and our Engine (the spark) brings it all to life.

  • This is your creative control panel. Context is the set of rules and DNA you define for the character. It's how you direct the Soul's performance, ensuring it stays true to your world and narrative.

    • Knowledge: What the character knows about the world, its lore, history, and the current game state.

    • Character: Their defined personality, traits, charisma, and emotional state.

    • Skills: Their gameplay-relevant abilities and how they interact with other game systems.

  • A character isn't alive if it can't remember. The Memory is the Soul's persistent log of lived experience, allowing it to evolve. It records past player (and other NPC) conversations and actions, enabling true continuity. A promise made in Act 1 can be recalled in Act 3, and a slight from a player can be held as a grudge.

  • This is the spark itself. The Engine is our highly optimized, fine-tuned large language model (LLM) that runs locally on the player's device. It synthesizes the Context you've written and the Memory it's gained to process, perform, and converse in real-time. This is the magic that provides a living, original voice for your character.

The Foundry

The Foundry is your complete, production-ready toolkit for creation and control. It connects the Soul to your world. We provide all the tools necessary to seamlessly integrate this technology into your existing workflows and empower your creative teams.

  • A new technology is only useful if it fits your workflow. The Foundry is built for production, with seamless integrations for today's standard game engines like Unreal and Unity. Our toolkit is designed to be robust, lightweight, and easy to deploy, letting your team focus on creation, not on re-engineering a complex development pipeline.

  • This is your control centre for large-scale storytelling. The World Narrative system features two key components:

    • The Narrator Module: An overseer LLM that acts as a Dungeon Master, controlling the global game state, tracking the main story, and ensuring all Souls act in concert with the living world.

    • The Narrative Designer: A powerful toolset that integrates with your existing solutions, empowering your writers to move beyond static dialogue trees and direct emergent, dynamic storylines.

  • The Foundry provides the complete, real-time input and output pipeline to connect the player to the Soul. This includes our highly optimized modules for:

    • Speech-to-Text: Instantly translating player voice commands.

    • Text-to-Speech: Giving the Soul a high-quality, performant voice.

    • Text-to-Facial Animation: Driving real-time, expressive character animations directly from the Soul's response.