Star Citizen switches to Lumberyard graphics engine

Robert Sole 25 December, 2016

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Star Citizen switched from the CryEngine graphics engine to the Lumberyard, due to CryTek's financial problems.

The Star Citizen game, since its appearance through crowfounding, has caused great expectation, raising 200 million dollars in a very short time and the number of what it has raised has been growing little by little, being already astronomical amounts. This title has two main characteristics, the great graphic quality of the game and that it is an extremely large universe, which implies a constant and endless development process.

The title time will receive an important graphic modification. The CEO of Cloud Imperium Games, Chris Roberts, one of the creators of the game, has announced that they will stop working with the CryEngine graphics engine due to CryTek's delicate economic situation and will move to the Lumberyard graphics engine, developed by Amazon, which is free and is based on CryEngine itself. This means that the graphic quality would remain the same or could even be improved.

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We have been working with Amazon for over a year as we have been looking for a technology leader to work with for the long term future on Star Citizen and Squadron 42. Lumberyard offers innovative technology features for online gaming.

Integrating deep cloud support on AWS and its social component with Twitch allows us to easily and instantly connect millions of players globally.

Because we share a common technical vision, it has been a very smooth and easy transition to Lumberyard. We are actually very excited to announce that our next release of Alpha 2.6 for Star Citizen will run on Lumberyard and AWS.

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Jump to Lumberyard, is based on Amazon's support for the multiplayer section, which will allow the company to offer stability in terms of player connections and also a resistant platform even if thousands of users are connected simultaneously. We must also take into account the large storage capacity and computing power offered by AWS cloud technology, which also allows streaming through Twitch.