Intel® Game Dev AI Toolkit

Overview

The Intel® Game Dev AI Toolkit brings the power of AI and machine learning to game developers. This ambitious addition unleashes an arsenal of AI-powered technology, ranging from beautiful, immersive world creation to performant, real-time game-object style transfer visualizations. It provides powerful new object detection capabilities and gives developers the ability to unlock a number of game-enhancement variations at lightning speeds. The initial release is designed to work with Unity*, with future versions planned for Unreal Engine*.

At the heart of the Game Dev AI Toolkit, the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit inference engine powers the performance for the machine-learning gaming workloads. With OpenVINO, AI workloads can be targeted to the Intel® CPU, GPU, or VPU. On non-Intel platforms, the Game Dev AI Toolkit can default to the cross-platform Barracuda AI inference engine from Unity.

Download

Foundational Game Dev AI Toolkit (for Unity)

Foundational Game Dev AI Toolkit plus Gaia ML (for Unity)

Support for the Game Dev AI Toolkit and Gaia ML available at the Canopy support forums

 

Features

  • Object detection and style transfer machine learning models are built into the foundational Game Dev AI Toolkit. This provides code you can use to build your AI and machine-learning skills, as well as augment your own game projects.
  • Modular, extensible architecture you can extend to accommodate new machine-learning models and AI capabilities
  • Support for multiple inference engines, allowing you to target AI and machine learning on platforms from mobile to desktop
  • Support for DP4A instructions on integrated graphics from Intel, as well as -Xmx AI acceleration built into the new Intel® ARC graphics
  • Support for built-in render pipeline from Unity, as well as High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP) with Universal Render Pipeline (URP) support coming soon

Screenshots

Unity scene with machine-learning object detection enabled (left), and then augmented with machine-learning style transfer in real time (right)

AI-powered target identification with the Game Dev AI Toolkit (Loyal Allies demonstration courtesy of Procedural Worlds)

Game Dev AI Toolkit integrates with third-party assets like Gaia

What’s Included

Foundational Game Dev AI Toolkit (Open Source)
  • Object detection code and machine learning model
  • Style transfer code and machine learning models
  • OpenVINO inference engine DLLs
Game Dev AI Toolkit plus Gaia ML Integration
  • Object detection code and machine learning model
  • Style transfer code and machine learning models
  • OpenVINO inference engine DLLs

Gaia ML Integration available from Procedural Worlds

Prerequisites

Game Dev AI Toolkit plus Gaia ML Integration
  • Unity 2020.3 or higher (alpha and beta versions are not supported)
  • OpenVINO inference engine components automatically installed. To use the Barracuda inference engine, you need to install the Barracuda package.

About Barracuda

Barracuda Package Installation Guide