The Puchheim, Germany-based Artificial Technology said Friday the latest version of its EKI One A.I. middleware will be integrated with Unity Technologies' widely-used Unity3D game engine.

EKI One 2.6 connects with Unity in the runtime environment and in the game design workflow, Artificial Technology said. That allows developers to make changes that are automatically applied when running the game and while designing in Unity, according to the middleware provider.

The company said it has also improved user-friendliness with the EKI One Configurator graphical interface and now offers wide-ranging extensions for online game behavior solution EKI One Server.

EKI One 2.6 includes four components -- the EKI One Engine, EKI One Server, EKI One Configurator and EKI One Support.