Old news - Starcitizen switches "away" from CryEngine

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme...mises-move-amazons-lumberyard-wont-delay-game

This happened in December apparently and isn't quite as disastrous as it sounds. A little while ago amazon, well you could say they "saved" crytek (iirc) by buying CryEngine. So they took it and started developing it with their own uses in mind. In short they wanted a nice looking game engine they could give to people for free and encourage them to make games that, if suited, would run on amazon's cloud architecture. They focused on networking and scalability and UI tools.

So star citizen switched thinking that amazon's engine development was better funded/resourced and went in a direction they would benefit from as opposed to where Crytek were going (answers on a post card for that one).

Reading the article it sounds like the 2 core builds of cryengine (amazon's and Starcitizen's) were so similar that it was only a few days work to change that bit over. In short no drama and likely no engine switch related delays.

Makes me wonder though about little ol' MindArk. Would they ever want to switch from their rather dated version of Cryengine to Amazon's version and then maybe look at cloud hosting the game?

I dream of a day that someone from MA would actually read this and comment from a technical standpoint about the ins and outs, benefits and challenges of doing this.

But no... it won't happen. I will carry on dreaming.

Wistrel