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Overview
What CryEngine does
CryEngine is a powerful game engine used for AAA and indie games. It features stunning graphics, modular architecture, and support for multiple platforms.
What people use it for
- Building photorealistic first person and open world games with real time global illumination
- Developing with full engine source code access
- Sandbox based level design with what you see is what you get export
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Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about CryEngine.
- A royalty of 5% of Gross Receipts is payable to Crytek on every game built with CRYENGINE
- Royalties are waived only on the first USD 5,000.00 of Gross Receipts per year per game
- Royalties are calculated at source on gross receipts before any publisher or platform deductions, so a developer receiving 70% of USD 100,000 still owes USD 4,750
- Military projects, gambling, simulation, science, architecture and serious games are excluded from the standard licence and are not covered as Games
- The licence forbids combining CRYENGINE with code from other game engine providers
- Supported platforms are limited to those Crytek announces at its sole discretion, listed in the agreement as Windows, Linux, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
- Support is only provided against payment of a separate Support Fee that Crytek may change at its sole discretion
- Crytek may modify the licence agreement at any time, with the only remedy for disagreement being to stop using CRYENGINE
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Pricing
What CryEngine costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Free
Free
- Full engine access
- Source code
- Asset library
- 5% revenue share after first $50k
- Professional support available
Capabilities
Features
Advanced graphics
Advanced graphics capability
Physics engine
Physics engine capability
AI system
AI system capability
Animation tools
Animation tools capability
Flow Graph visual scripting
Flow Graph visual scripting capability
C++ and Lua support
C++ and Lua support capability
Entity component system
Entity component system capability
Sandbox editor
Sandbox editor capability
Visual Studio
Integration with Visual Studio
Perforce
Integration with Perforce
Wwise
Integration with Wwise
Nvidia PhysX
Integration with Nvidia PhysX
Behind it
Who makes CryEngine
- Company
- Crytek
- Based in
- Frankfurt, Germany
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