AI Factory are specialists in providing quality, easy-to-use traditional and casual AI game engine licences, superior AI characterisation and full 2D and 3D games for PC, console and mobile.

We now have a total of 5 Shogi products either already on release or weeks away from release. The latest of these is Shotest Shogi 3D which has just gone on sale. This is an English-language only product with full 3D, rendered in an attractive Japanese setting. An added feature of this product is that two westernised Shogi sets are provided in addition to the standard Japanese set. One of these uses a design which shows the legal moves that each piece can make (pictured right). Since Shogi is a significant product for us, we now have an "Official Shotest Shogi Website" at www.shotest.co.uk. This will be the centre now for new Shogi products and Shogi news in general.

We are also working on a next generation version of Pool and Snooker right now. Building on our older Friday Night 3D Pool product, this takes advantage of the improved newer graphics processors, and offers a good prospect of providing a capable basis for an on-line game, offering richer graphics than other existing on-line Pool/Snooker products.

AI Factory's core activity is the development of quality AI engines for traditional and casual games, presented with an easy-to-use and feature-rich interface, including a high level of characterisation, shared by all engines. This game engine resource is licensed to third party developers worldwide for the easy-to-implement development of complete game software on PC, console or mobile.

We also create full retail products - artwork, rendering engines and AI - in-house. Alongside quality 2D games, AI Factory has created lavish 3D versions of a selection of classic games, bringing traditional games up-to-date with other genres in the games industry.

We have state-of-the-art AI game engines for an ever-growing range of casual games, including traditional board games, and parlour pastimes from East and West (chess, bridge, backgammon, reversi, shogi, chinese chess, chinese checkers, go, amazons, checkers, four in a line, gomoku and many more), classic card games (bridge, poker, hearts, spades and euchre), puzzles (taipei, dominoes, treasure hunt and others) and life-simulations (including darts, pool, snooker and football).

Many of these game names are instantly recognisable and affordable brands, as well as sitting firmly in the casual games genre, currently a fast growing gaming market.

AI Factory deliver fast, high quality products (whether engines or full games), in a friendly and professional manner. All products have a shared interface for simple implementation, are fully supported and pass quickly through QA, keeping our customers happy.

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This is the official website for AI Factory's Shotest Shogi engine, featuring information on all games using the Shotest Shogi engine.