EDG's New Game Engine

As I mentioned in the newsletter and on the Etherea: Dark Genesis main site, we have been able to get a new and better engine for developing Etherea: Dark Genesis. The game engine is C++ based and has many added features to the one we were previously using as well as better graphics.

The new game engine has a physics engine, better texturing abilities, better network code to allow more players to be online at one time only being limited by our hardware, actual lighting, etc.

Gelco got a hold of the engine and has been working closely with R@nsid to get used to the engine. Today Gelco was able to get R@nsid's models to work in the game, he set up a small server, and imported some buildings into the new game engine. Everything seems to be running smoothly and you can already tell the difference between this game engine and the one we were previously using.

The June 20th Alpha Test will still occur using the old game engine so that the Alpha Testers can see the difference in the engines. When Alpha re-opens with the new game engine the Alpha Testers that were chosen for the June 20th Alpha Test will be invited back to test throughout the game's testing phases.

These changes are very exciting and we are all looking forward to all the new things, like real AI, we can do in this game engine.