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Too Human No Longer an Unreal 3 Title?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the unreal dept.

1up is reporting that Silicon Knights, makers of Eternal Darkness and the upcoming Too Human, may have decided to drop the Unreal 3 Engine from Too Human. The company is reportedly having big problems getting Epic's powerful product to work well with their title on the 360. The plan is now that they will be crafting their own rendering systems for use with the game.

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  1. Industry rumer is by rsilvergun · · Score: 4, Funny

    they're switching to the DNF engine.

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  2. PlayStation - GameCube - X360 - ? by CaseyB · · Score: 4, Funny

    They've already blamed the platform for the failure to complete this title more than once.

    It's like that old saying: Give up on one platform, shame on the platform.

    Give up on 3 platforms ... give up ... Can't give up again!

  3. NDH Syndrome by RingDev · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not Designed Here syndrome. It can usually be averted by reviewing investments in 3rd party solutions, acquiring new 3rd party solutions, or by planning from the start to use an in house solution.

    At this point, it will likely mean project failure. The organization's core capability is making games, not game engines. Not only is there the huge scope of creating the engine, testing, debugging, and optimizing, but there is the legal liability in it also. If their engine designers have been staring at Unreal3 engine code for the last 6 months, and now decide to create their own engine, what is the likelihood that they will borrow either code or concepts from the Unreal engine? That could turn around and bite them hard in a trade secrets and copy right lawsuit.

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    1. Re:NDH Syndrome by MindStalker · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Exactly, I think they'd be better off obtaining permission to highly modify the UnReal engine. No reason to completly scrap usable code you've already licensed.

  4. Here's a Stat I'd like to know by Kardall · · Score: 4, Interesting
    From people in the industry using UE3, how many of you have had problems developing it for each console? What were the problems experienced? How did you overcome them or did you?

    If a company like Silicon Knights has issues with something, and decides near the end of their products pre-release lifespan, to scrap the backbone of the game and redo it, then there has to be either something very wrong with the Engine, or the platform.

    It's not a light decision. That will set a game back by a huge amount of time, probably inconceivable at this point, because doing their own renderer will take time in and of itself. Then they'll have to adapt everything that they've done to it. Perhaps, they'll just take parts of the Unreal Engine 3 with them, and keep some of the basics? I dunno. Seems kinda weak to say this at the end.