New Technologies to be Revealed at GDC 2005

Game technology developers Havok and Epic both plan to introduce the newest iterations of their systems at this year's GDC. Havok will be revealing the newest version of their middleware, while Epic Systems will be showing the Unreal Engine version 3 along with their new scripting tools and AI behaviors. From the article: "...seamless world support allows the creation of virtually unending environments through background management of game levels and assets. Even titles not requiring open world support will benefit from these memory management techniques on next-generation console platforms."

Comments

RPG's

[nathanmace]

Sounds like we will have some interesting RPG's to look forward to. (At least as far as the "world" in which the games take place in)

I wonder if I can go to GDC

[Celestial Avenger]

Girlfriend used to work for a game company and had access to it. That woman better find her ID card and claim me to be an assistant. Last year she didn't even go because her co-workers said there'd be nothing there. What'd she miss? THE GOD DAMN PSP. Now to find my ninja cape.

UReal engine looks sweet

[superpulpsicle]

But I guess I'd need a 5Ghz PC with 6GB of RAM with another $600 video card upgrade thru Nvidia/ATI.

Only Slightly Stale Technologies To Be Re-Revealed

[nick_davison]

Game technology developers Havok and Epic both plan to introduce the newest iterations of their systems at this year's GDC... Epic Systems will be showing the Unreal Engine version 3

Unreal Engine 3 was demo'd at E3 last year. True, it hasn't been released yet but it's also not an introduction if the world has already been introduced to it.

I'm looking forward to the aftershow party where Michael Jackson will be unveiling his "Moonwalk", whatever that might be.

Bioware / Unreal Engine 3

[jacoplane]

Bioware have already licensed the Unreal Engine 3 for a project they have said will be a RPG. Bioware of course is the company behind Baldur's Gate and Knights of the Old Republic.

hey hey hey...

[sponga]

I dont wanna be anywhere where Michael Jackson will be unveiling anything!

Unreal Engine E3 Video

[jacoplane]

Check out the video from E3:
Link, Link 2

Seamless world support?

[drinkypoo]

I've heard this before. Is it actually here this time? (I'm downloadng the video but I won't have it for over an hour.) It's the last step to making really gigantic worlds. It would also allow you to generate new content and use it on the fly. That's key to doing things like persistent environments with deformable terrain. You could implement a first-person MUD by allowing people to place geometry objects which are processed into level data every [insert time interval here] and allowing people to destroy and manipulate the terrain as well.