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jansan · 2020-05-13 20:43:30+00:00

I guess they go completely to the limit in their demos, so in actual games you will see it only after the next version of their engine has been released.

aasasd | karma 6352 | avg karma 2.25 · | 2021-12-10 09:34:03

Doesn't UE have a history of showing capabilities in tech demos that turn out to not be or not be used in games?

snorkel | karma 3175 | avg karma 3.26 · | 2008-06-06 14:13:58+00:00

Of course by the time they get close to release their graphics engine will be outdated and they'll have to start again and so it continues.

ErneX | karma 753 | avg karma 2.26 · | 2021-12-13 03:27:46

This demo was made on the unfinished engine with a team of less than 100 people in less than a year. Once this is the hands of bigger studios with longer schedules and even more optimized I think you'd be surprised.

tieTYT | karma 797 | avg karma 1.87 · | 2014-08-15 23:53:53

I didn't understand this response. Are you saying the company doesn't release it because the developers are embarrassed of the quality of the code in the engine?

markatkinson | karma 639 | avg karma 2.38 · | 2017-05-20 08:18:46

They working on a Unreal Engine implementation too. I really can't wait for that. It sounds like they in the final stages however, it has been there for a few months.

spuz | karma 4406 | avg karma 3.5 · | 2015-03-04 09:17:24+00:00

Chances are, they are developing the engine alongside a new game built on that engine. That is after-all how most game engines are built.

ska | karma 12592 | avg karma 2.33 · | 2020-05-13 18:21:21+00:00

Wasn't their point that real games never quite reached the promise of UE4 demos, implying that the same will be true of this generation?

dogma1138 | karma 17831 | avg karma 2.04 · | 2016-01-19 18:30:24+00:00

Didn't they open sourced the engine? If so people can port it as they like.

xedarius | karma 720 | avg karma 2.87 · | 2011-11-02 14:04:52+00:00

Also it's not always up to the games company, their publisher would not allow them to release the engine.

erlend_sh | karma 3267 | avg karma 8.98 · | 2015-09-20 09:18:44+00:00

I don't believe there is. At this stage what the engine really needs is a couple 3D artists who can help churn out a few more CC-BY models so that they can put together a properly playable game demo.

e12e | karma 13838 | avg karma 1.49 · | 2014-10-10 18:03:17

I'd like to know that too. Right now, I think the engine looks more interesting than the game -- but the engine is really only interesting in as much as I can play with it...

squeaky-clean | karma 8646 | avg karma 3.1 · | 2021-07-06 14:41:44

They never open-sourced any of their engines until after they had published a game with the next iteration of their engine.

MDGeist | karma 93 | avg karma 2.66 · | 2023-10-18 09:37:30

As an outsider myself this was my assumption for why the demoscene is not the same as it once was, the hardware constraints are no the same as in the 90s. That being said I kind of look at the demo reels for new versions of Unreal Engine as a sort of modern incarnation of pushing the limits.

likpok | karma 1450 | avg karma 2.52 · | 2008-12-14 21:06:38+00:00

From what I understand, some games companies have the hopes of selling the engine separately from the game (e.g. Doom, Unreal, etc).

shortrounddev2 | karma 1880 | avg karma 1.84 · | 2023-09-13 09:50:56

Would be cool to see them make their own engine, though. I'm always happy to see new game engine projects

Thaxll | karma 4756 | avg karma 1.87 · | 2023-01-16 12:24:57

What's missing and not in the article is a showcase game, a proof that this engine can deliver a real AA/AAA on the market.

Jnr | karma 889 | avg karma 2.36 · | 2020-05-14 08:22:22+00:00

You are correct. I am personally excited that this technology exists, but I am also sad that we will have to wait a few years to see an actual game to utilize this.

The engine releases sometime in 2021 and then it will probably take a few years for some other studio to develop a decent AAA title using this. That is, unless Epic Games releases something awesome on their own soon.

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oneplane | karma 6399 | avg karma 2.47 · | 2020-11-18 04:12:56+00:00

Yep, oddly enough they made the game engine themselves like they did with almost all of their other games; apparently this time they didn't make it cross-platform.

Pretty strange considering the other (arguably more complicated) engines were supported from day 1, even their unreleased FPS (Ghost?) was going to be launched like that.

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malkia | karma 4426 | avg karma 1.58 · | 2023-09-10 18:36:48

Where is the game demo? Also to be considered gaming engine nowadays, you need actual tools, exporters (Maya, 3DSMax, etc.) + who knows what else (collaboration tooling, metrics, alerts)