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Schools Can Use CryEngine For Free
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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