Thoughts on Crytek?

[papel]

I see a lot of people do stuff with Unity and Unreal, but I also noticed that Crytek is free and mostly open.
But, its license also comes with a huge but: you can ONLY use it for creating games. Period. And not even porn games, only serious studio stuff.

2.4 - Licensee shall not: (...) use the CRYENGINE for the development of any product other than Games

That got me scratching my head, why limit it so? I couldn't find much discussion in the crytek forums, but what I'm thinking with myself the most is, what could possibly make they change their minds and allow porn games to be made? I think a porn game showing potential for success would either get them to rethink that bit of the license, or get a very angry e-mail from their lawyers.

Other than this, anyone ever messed around with it? In what aspects is it better or worse than the competition?

 

[recreation]

I've never used the cry engine, but I used unreal and unity, and from what I've read in the comunitys, the cryengine is harder to work with, demands better hardware, is worse to optimise for platforms. It's been a while since I've been active in both comunitys, so things might have changed to the better. It was also not free at the time.
Crytek is a german company, and german companys have stick up their ass, so I doubt that you'll be able to get them to open up to porn games^^

 

[redknight00]

I'm pretty sure Crytek doesn't allow porn games with their engine, so it's a moot point.

 

[recreation]

I'm pretty sure Crytek doesn't allow porn games with their engine, so it's a moot point.

they don't

 

[papel]

Crytek is a german company, and german companys have stick up their ass, so I doubt that you'll be able to get them to open up to porn games^^

Kinda weird how germans are either full lawful or batshit crazy, their porn as witness to that.

 

[Joshua Tree]

Maybe Amazon's "Lumberyard" engine could be an alternative to Cryengine. No idea if Lumberyard got any limitations on what it can be used for.

 

[Corvo Bianco]

CryEngine is an extremely hard engine to learn and to work with. There are practically no tutorials on the web, and if you get stuck with a problem, Google search most likely won't help you, because the community around the engine is small. All in all, CryEngine would be a bad choice... for anything, really.

 

[WooTorment]

That feels a bit like a line lawyers put in "just in case" someone thinks of something profitable to do with their engine that they get left out of.

 

[papel]

Maybe Amazon's "Lumberyard" engine could be an alternative to Cryengine. No idea if Lumberyard got any limitations on what it can be used for.

From a quick skim through Amazon's

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, Lumberyard is free and you can make games and other types of audio-visual works, no apparent restrictions anywhere. Sounds good enough for me and some people might like their "the product is free, we make money off other stuff (AWS) you can add to it as a service" - So, 100% offline games pay nothing at all to Amazon.

 

[Joshua Tree]

From a quick skim through Amazon's

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and their

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, Lumberyard is free and you can make games and other types of audio-visual works, no apparent restrictions anywhere. Sounds good enough for me and some people might like their "the product is free, we make money off other stuff (AWS) you can add to it as a service" - So, 100% offline games pay nothing at all to Amazon.

Afaik, Cloud Imperium Games (star citizen), changed from Cryengine to Lumberyard. Crytek went nutts, and sued CIG over that. Engine must be good for something.

 

[Daxter250]

I've never used the cry engine, but I used unreal and unity, and from what I've read in the comunitys, the cryengine is harder to work with, demands better hardware, is worse to optimise for platforms. It's been a while since I've been active in both comunitys, so things might have changed to the better. It was also not free at the time.
Crytek is a german company, and german companys have stick up their ass, so I doubt that you'll be able to get them to open up to porn games^^

ever used the havoc engine too by any chance? would like to know how it is.
'cause whenever i see a game made with havoc i'm kinda impressed how well designed it looks.

 

[recreation]

ever used the havoc engine too by any chance? would like to know how it is.
'cause whenever i see a game made with havoc i'm kinda impressed how well designed it looks.

Havoc isn't really an engine, even though it's called so. It's more an addon you can add to several "real" engines. It's used to simulate physics.

 

[Daxter250]

Havoc isn't really an engine, even though it's called so. It's more an addon you can add to several "real" engines. It's used to simulate physics.

for real? huh. and what engine did they use for dead space 2? did they use the godfather engine and patched the havoc engine on top of it or so?

 

[recreation]

for real? huh. and what engine did they use for dead space 2? did they use the godfather engine and patched the havoc engine on top of it or so?

Totally possible^^

 

[215303j]

Kinda weird how germans are either full lawful or batshit crazy, their porn as witness to that.

Simple. Germans generally do it 100% (or rather 99%) or not at all.
What the "it" is doesn't matter so much.
Personally I like this attitude to be honest.

 

[Daxter250]

Totally possible^^

the more you know! ^^