Mon, Apr 12, 2010 | 19:50 BST
Crytek planning free-to-use CryEngine 3 for developers
Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli has revealed that the developer has plans to develop a free-to-use CryEngine 3 for developers, modders and more.
Already, Epic Games gives away its own free-to-use engine of Unreal Engine 3, while the same can also be said for California-based Unity and its Indie Platform. But Yerli says Crytek would like to join the party.
“We have a very vivid community of users and modders and content creators, and usually that’s a great way of unlocking the engine,” he told Develop.
“That being said, it’s not the same as what Epic or Unity are currently doing, but we are now pushing harder on this area. We did it before already [with CryEngine 2], but we haven’t pushed it that far yet.”
There’s more through the link. We spoke to Cevat Yerli last week at the reveal of Crytek’s latest game Crysis 2. Get the first part of the interview here, while the second part will go live at some point this week.
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Posted in: Development, hardware
Tags: cevat yerli, cryengine 3, crytek
11 comments
#1
AlmightyDogbert
12/04/10, 8:29 pm
They will have to try hard to get more developers using their engine against unreal, so every little helps
#2
Erthazus
12/04/10, 8:42 pm
Probably won’t work. Its too expansive to develop with Cryengine.
#3
DJ Deathstar
12/04/10, 9:18 pm
Would be awesome if devs did start to use it as im pretty sick of mediocre developers using the Unreal engine and it always lookings the same with only the likes of Epic, Bioware etc able to pull off decent stuff with it
#4
S0meRand0mN00b
12/04/10, 9:29 pm
omg this is gona be amazing for modders and community if crytek do this its probably gona have the same impact and the same communnity response as The Source engine got and thats is anything but a bad idea!!!!!!
#5
endgame
12/04/10, 10:17 pm
kind of what Deathstar tried to say but without the spelling mistakes. :p
#6
xino
12/04/10, 11:57 pm
if they allow this, then more developers will invest and buy Cryengine 3 and start using it for their games.
#7
Neolucifer
13/04/10, 12:28 am
finally freed from the shackles of Epic’s middleware , if things are handled right
#8
Jeany
13/04/10, 3:04 am
if they allow this, then more developers will invest and buy Cryengine 3 and start using it for their games.
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#9
YoungZer0
13/04/10, 3:20 am
Just imagine how freaking Great Mass Effect would look with CryEngine 3. Especially the facial animations … yami.
#10
rainer
13/04/10, 9:21 am
The have an uphill struggle to get people interested.
Epics Unreal and Emergent’s Gamebyro engine are the only credible licensed game engines available for commercial development.
Epic has offices in America, Europe and Asia dedicated to licensing and support of Unreal. Gamebyro has proven to be popular with some developers who have stuck with it over the years.
Unless Crytek put a huge effort behind it they’ll go nowhere.
#11
2plus2equals5
13/04/10, 10:50 am
Great!