Blue engine
From Halopedia, the Halo wiki
This article is a stub. You can help Halopedia by expanding it.
| Blue engine | |
|---|---|
|
Developed by: |
|
The Blue engine is a proprietry 3D game engine built by the Amsterdam-based studio W!Games for use in their in-house projects, before being used by Vanguard Games after W!Games was merged with another studio - Karami.[1] Vanguard proceeded to use the Blue engine to develop the game Halo: Spartan Assault and its sequel, Spartan Strike.[2]
Development history[edit]
The Blue engine's origins lie in Vanguard's (then-W!Games') previous games Greed Corp and Gatling Gears, both set in Vanguard's "Mistbound" universe. After releasing Gatling Gears in 2011, Vanguard began to make a spiritual successor to Gatling Gears, eventually showcasing their prototypes to 343 Industries, who approved Vanguard to begin work on what would become Halo: Spartan Assault.[3]
In early production, the game's planned Windows 8 mobile devices were not available, meaning early prototypes were built and tested on controller.[3] However, once the devices did come into use, the Blue engine's internal proprietry nature allowed Vanguard to work with the new hardware - with no other engine on the market having any inbuilt support for the hardware yet. This also allowed Spartan Assault's developers to push things to their absolute limits[4] - resulting in some journalists believing the game had been built in Unity.[3]
The engine was later reused for Halo: Spartan Strike, with lots of reused assets to ensure production could go smoothly.[5] After Spartan Assault, Vanguard games switched to using Unreal Engine 4 for all of their subsequent titles.[2][6]
Sources[edit]
- ^ gamesindustry.biz, Vanguard Entertainment Group launch (Retrieved on Dec 31, 2024) [archive]
- ^ a b Ron Kamphuis, Portfolio (Retrieved on Dec 31, 2024) [archive]
- ^ a b c Control, Interview • Vanguard Games over zijn HALO-avontuur: “Wie krijgt er nu de kans om met zo’n groot IP te werken?” (Retrieved on Dec 31, 2024) [archive]
- ^ Maurice Camps, Halo: Spartan Assault (Retrieved on Dec 31, 2024) [archive]
- ^ Maurice Camps, Halo: Spartan Strike (Retrieved on Dec 31, 2024) [archive]
- ^ Maurice Camps, Projects (Retrieved on Dec 31, 2024) [archive]
|
| |||||||||||
