Athlone developer Frantic to fulltime

Frantic Games
, based in Athlone, are to take their PC game ‘1944 D-Day Operation Overlord’ into fulltime development. The developer is entering into DIT’s HotHouse program.

Operation Overlord is set to be a first person shooter on a massive
scale, with over 200,000 units, and a 24 hours battle. The firm is also
planning ‘The Educational Cut’ version of the game for use in the
classroom environment.

“1944 D-Day Operation Overlord
is the simulation of an event. It does not strive to tell the story of
one unit or one squad. Instead it endeavours to tell the story of the
battle” states Frantic’s website, “The game at its core is driven
by a highly adaptable AI system, this AI system controls over 250,000
units in real-time. Moving them all around the battlefield and adapting
their orders, objectives and tasks to an every evolving battlefield”.