The EA Sports Ignite

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(styled as EA SPORTS IGNITE) is a collection of video game technologies built by

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and designed to make video game sports "alive". The technology was announced at Microsoft's

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reveal event in May 2013 for three

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franchise games for Xbox One and

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: ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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'', all released in Fall 2013.

Capabilities

Electronic Arts announced several features within the engine. Its Human Intelligence framework lets in-game players "think like real athletes", with the ability to make snap judgments, prepare for impact, and perform as a team player. For example, the new

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creates a sense of urgency for computer players towards the end of an association football match to rush for more shots on goal. The True Player Motion framework makes players' bodies, limbs, and clothing each move according to physics. The Living Worlds framework models the stadium audience members and their behaviors individually. The audience will have expectations about the in-game sports matches, and will react accordingly to the match's progress. The Ignite artificial intelligence is able to use the next-gen hardware to handle four times as many calculations per second than older EA Sports titles. Animation detail is expected to improve "ten-fold". Electronic Arts plans to use Ignite for future sports games and

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for future action games (with the exception of ''

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'', which also uses Frostbite, and current iterations of the ''Madden NFL'', ''FIFA'' and ''NHL'' series, which use Frostbite instead of Ignite). The company had previously shared technology internally before moving to develop all future sports games on the same engine.

History

Ignite was publicly announced at Microsoft's May 2013

reveal event. Four upcoming

franchise games for

and

were announced to be using the technology: ''

'', ''

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'', ''

'', and ''

''. Electronic Arts showed pre-rendered sequences of the games at the reveal event instead of real-time gameplay.

Games using the Ignite engine

References

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