The lights are on
Crytek recently announced that it is handing out free CryEngine 3 licenses to educational facilities. The developer had previously embarked on an initiative to compete against Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3 in the lucrative middleware market. The decision makes all kinds of sense. One of the biggest obstacles to convince developers to use CryEngine instead of Unreal Engine is the fact that as the de facto standard, UE3 is familiar to many designers, artists, and programmers. Allowing universities to teach using CryEngine for free means up-and-coming development talent will be more likely to have a working knowledge of the technology. Studio heads will have an easier time finding people who know the tools, making the true cost of using CryEngine lower.As we noted previously, more competition in the middleware market is a win for everybody (except possibly Epic, which is in great shape anyway). Our hope is that CryEngine is able to render things other than space marines, which seem to be roughly 80% of the content created with Unreal Engine 3.
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Awesome. I'll be sure to convince some teachers to give this a go.
i wanted to make games but i like variety. i really just want to play them instead! and this seems like an idea.
CryEngine3 in schools= child labor needed to make Crysis 2
Awesome. I love both engines, and would like to see more games than just the ones from UE3. I like the variety of feels and graphics that are a result of different engines. Besides lets face it UE3 make people look like really shiny plastic dolls.
making video games would be cool.
that awsome!!
Nice! Now our children will learn to make games that don't run on normal PCs!
Thank god for this. I don't know about the rest of you but in my opinion the Unreal Engin is starting to look like crap! Every game excluding Batman Arkham Asylum, and Bioshock, look like they are just crappier versions of Gears of War. I belive that the Unreal engine is also not equiped to handel colorful enviornments without making everything get all mudded together. Any game that isnt primarily black and gray save Bioshock looks like abslute garbage on Unreal, which explains why most games that use the Unreal engine look like the exact same as all the others.
***, I need to go to a school.
@ Nick Ahrens, oh that wont be a problem, I'll just spend as much time "after school" doing "extra curriclar activities", like running "benchmarks", on their PC's....
lol thats true
Not about the engine
but will people stop putting 1st
We know you're the first comment & thats about as impressive as a pile of rat ***
I hate Unreal Engine 3
Isn't this the same engine that crippled many computers with how hi-tech Crytek (rhymes!) made it? :-P
This is great
Innovation here we come.
I like those graphics.that and MW2,UC2,KZ2 = best graphix
that's awesome.
Can't wait to see the next gen make something better.