Star Citizen and Squadron 42 are using Amazon’s Lumberyard game engine

Post by cwyers » Sat, Dec 24, 2016, 9:32 PM UTC

tornadoboy55 wrote: post #81

TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #22

The link should probably be updated to point directly to Venturebeat [0] instead of the AMP version. I think submitting the AMP version might break the guidelines, which ask you to submit the original source. I preordered Star Citizen a few years ago, but I stopped keeping track of all updates after a while. To be honest, I kinda assumed it'd just become vaporware. Although I'd heard about Amazon Lumberyard before, I…

Upwards to 70% of the XBOX360/PS3 generation AAA games ran on the Unreal Engine. For the XBONE/PS4 gen its 60% Unreal 30% Unity 10% stuff like CryEngine. It'd be very hard to knock Unreal off its throne since it's very, very well written and essentially free (you pay 5% of profits for commercial use when you go above a certain threshold). So no, there aren't any real openings for disruption unless Epic does something…

Post by sandworm101 » Sat, Dec 24, 2016, 9:43 PM UTC

izacus wrote: post #89

sandworm101 wrote: post #66

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>> compare the current "game" to what was originally promised That's a real issue with crowdfunding. More often than not, the devs truly have no idea what the final game will look like. Much of the early funding goes into what are essentially extended market research projects. Alphas are released, feedback taken, and changes made. Everyone expects that devs have some final version of "done" in their heads, but the tr…

What about Divinity: Original Sin, Pillars of Eternity and quite a few other crowdfunded games that were released and are good?

Post by pandaman » Sat, Dec 24, 2016, 9:53 PM UTC

scrollaway wrote: post #90

pandaman wrote: post #78

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A simple linkedin search returns about a hundred. With the total number of employees about two hundred and the company having been around for about five years, it's hardly comparable to Blizzard, which has thousands of employees and contractors and had been there for decades.

The point I failed to make is that high (double digit) employee turnover is extremely common in game dev, especially at low ranks; and unlike Blizzard, CIG is not an exceptional place to work at. If you want to see what "people jumping ship" looks like, you should be directing your eyes towards Zynga: Constant layoffs, extremely high turnover including the executive level and plummeting revenue. Nothing like CIG.

Post by cwyers » Sat, Dec 24, 2016, 10:13 PM UTC

ChoGGi wrote: post #94

cwyers wrote: post #91

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For AAA games, it's mostly in-house engines. Frostbite for EA games. Call of Duty games use the IW Engine. Bethesda uses either idTech or something geared for their RPGs.

Bethesda has been using the Gamebryo/Creation Engine for their RPGs (Fallout/Skyrim). I think Bethesda has only used idTech for Rage/Doom.

Post by nightski » Sat, Dec 24, 2016, 10:57 PM UTC

munchbunny wrote: post #76

bm3719 wrote: post #40

After getting my refund, I've been watching the SC narrative unfold from the sidelines with interest. There's enough things that've gone awry in this project to write a book about (and I guess if you were to collect all of Derek Smart's writings, that's what you'd have). For me, the main deal breakers and why I got out were that I felt substantively bait-and-switched when you compare the current "game" to what was or…

This gets to the root of my problems with the game's development history. The switch to Lumberyard makes a lot of sense. It's basically Cryengine. With Crytek shutting down, I'd want to switch to a still maintained but pretty much the same engine too. When Star Citizen was originally announced on Kickstarter I was hyped as hell that Freelancer was going to get a spiritual successor. But I held off because it felt lik…