Video game production costs are skyrocketing. The cost of creating increasingly high-quality assets, of building and maintaining production pipelines from project to project, of designing systems for multiple platforms, and the building and “carrying costs” of title-specific technology are all mounting.
Emergent provides flexible solutions that lower all these costs. Our game development technologies increase efficiency and allow your team to create titles in any genre for any market segment.
Are you building a world-class RPG or a First-Person Shooter? A small casual game or an MMO? A visual simulation or a training application? And are you targeting the PC, PLAYSTATION®3, Wii or Xbox 360– or a combination of platforms? In any and all cases, Emergent can help.
Emergent’s Gamebryo™ is a flexible, cross-platform game development engine and toolset. It’s optimized for current- and future-generation game development for any genre or type of game.
Gamebryo accelerates your project, whether you’re creating your prototype or first-playable, streamlining your production pipeline, or targeting multiple consoles.
Powerful: Game Design
Gamebryo is a well-architected API that is designed to deliver outstanding performance with true multi-core/multi-platform capabilities. As an API, Gamebryo is constructed to deliver outstanding performance with true multi-core and multi-platform capabilities.
Gamebryo automatically handles nearly every animated value that can be specified when exporting from popular DCC tools. In addition, Gamebryo’s Animation Tool lets you blend between an arbitrary number of animation sequences. The new Emergent Terrain System extends your palette and supports industry standard products like PhysX and SpeedTree. Gamebryo provides all the rendering, animation and special effects features you need to create any genre of game.
Flexible: Game Engine
Gamebryo provides robust and modular development tools, so you can customize it to create unique titles that look and play like no one else’s. The APIs include multiple culling and sorting techniques that reduce CPU usage by drawing only visible objects.
From the plug-in-driven tools and pipeline to the runtime renderers, flexibility is a core architecture principle at all levels of the Gamebryo product line. Gamebryo libraries are designed to allow maximum user customization without requiring source code modification. You also have the option to license the source code and adapt it to meet your needs.
Proven: Game Development Solution
With over a decade of success backing it up, Gamebryo is the foundational technology in hundreds of titles in more than a dozen genres. Gamebryo is constantly evolving to meet the challenges of a changing game technology landscape. For example, Emergent's Floodgate™ stream processing engine eases development challenges on multi-core platforms (PS3, Xbox 360 and multi-core PCs) -- and is even Wii-aware, so you can simultaneously develop for any or all platforms without sacrifice.
Emergent has engineered Gamebryo to ensure it gives you what you need to help you realize your vision for your project, right out of the box.
High-Quality, Commercial-Grade
Gamebryo is a professionally-engineered software development kit. Each Gamebryo release undergoes extensive testing and quality assurance to provide a rock-solid foundation for your project. We pride ourselves on the clearly-written, well-documented quality of our code, optimized to let your team begin developing your title quickly and efficiently.
Gamebryo provides a comprehensive set of sample applications showing off specific features of the product, as well as larger demo applications that illustrate how to integrate multiple features to make your prototype or produce a game.
Gamebryo can help you:
- Develop prototypes and get to first-playable quickly so that you can present your concepts to publishers and investors
- Increase efficiency by enabling artists to work independently of developers, allowing faster iteration
- Easily target your game for multiple platforms, better ensuring all SKUs can be released simultaneously
- Take advantage of the high-performance power of multi-core – across multiple architectures – through Gamebryo’s Floodgate™ stream processing engine
- Create any type of game you want – in any genre – using modular, flexible features and easy-to-extend, fully-documented APIs that let you unleash your game’s potential without restriction
Recent Gamebryo game engine features:
- Full support for the Wii and extended support for DirectX 10
- New DCC tools support through a tailor-made SoftImage|XSI 6.5 exporter
- Redesigned geometry system with performance optimizations specific to each supported platform
- A new mesh modifier system tied to the Floodgate stream processing engine, allowing for out-of-the box performance improvements for particle simulations and assets that are morphing or skinned
- Expanded Emergent Terrain editor and run-time, including support for PhysX
- Performance improvements to the Animation System and enhancements for Scene Designer to enable group collaboration
- Constant attention to usability and productivity, with accelerators for developers such as updated console SDK support and now special handling for Warning Level 4
You can leverage Gamebryo’s high-performance renderer and modular suite of tools to make a rich, immersive experience for your customers.
Industry-Leading Support
Emergent is committed to helping you make great games, and our customer support professionals are with you every step of the way. Whether it’s your first use of our evaluator’s kit, or you’re leveraging all of the advanced features and functionality of the Gamebryo APIs, Emergent will helping you make your game stunning.
Our support team is embedded within the engineering group, so the same developers who write our technology and tools are available to help you push the limits of our tech for your project. The Gamebryo system is fully documented, the code is easily navigable and online forums are available for registered users 24 hours a day.
We also offer on-site training conducted by our in-house experts for those times you need to get direct, hands-on help in an intensive training session.