Emergent Game Technologies has fallen. Their attempt to resurrect themselves in September with the Krome Studio partnership was short-lived. Days after the Emergent/Krome announcement came word that Krome was shuttering its studio, leaving little doubt that Emergent's days were numbered as well.
Emergent was able to secure over $30 million in funding over the years and secured a number of key accounts in China including Tencent. It obviously wasn't enough. We hope the assets find a good home.
Emergent Game Technologies (“Company” or “”Emergent”) is a technology company that directly licenses and supports its products, Gamebryo® and Gamebryo LightSpeed®, to customers around the world. Founded in 2000 with a mission of developing tools and technologies for 3D interactive entertainment, Emergent merged with NDL in 2005, the company that created the Gamebryo game development engine and tools.http://www.gamingbusinessreview.com/emergentsellsassets.htm (http://www.gamingbusinessreview.com/emergentsellsassets.htm)
The Company’s assets are well-positioned to capitalize on several industry trends – largely around online games and online distribution – which enable the potential for game developers to reach customers more effectively through direct relationships online and more efficiently by constantly developing new content. Online game consumers have a rapidly growing appetite for progressive content. Emergent’s products can help accelerate the demand for 3D content by providing a higher quality of supply in less time and with less risk.
Fallout 4 on id Tech 5.
Gamebryo was fine and very capable.
I suppose that's true, Bethesda's been the only dev that's really using the engine. The 360 port of Bully didn't come out too hot at launch though.
For all their bugs I still have a lot of fun with Bethesdas games. I laughed when I read about how they were trying to figure out how to put ladders into fallout 3 and couldn't figure it out so they dropped them. If they switch to ID Tech 5 and it helps them make better games I'm all for it. If they improve Gamebryo for their next game as I've heard they've done it'll still be good. Maybe they'll have ladders :o
it was because of npc behavior, from what i read
with ladders in the world, important npcs died too often before the player ever reached them
can't say i've missed them, climbing ladders has sucked in just about every first and third person game i've ever played
Gamebryo was fine and very capable. No idea why the bottom feeders at GAF are all doing backflips over this news.
... because they are bottom feeders? ;):nsfw