By Ani Nrushima
Just recently, Valve Corporation, known for a variety of gaming achievements including the largest pc game store (Steam market) and the largest e-sports prize pool (the DOTA International, with over $10 million ), is releasing a new engine.
Valve Corporation is known for an incredible source engine – called source – whose successor was announced on March 3rd. Creatively named Source 2, the engine will be available to developers for free. This is big news in the gaming industry, as Valve is the third developer to make their engine free.
A game engine is a program that allows a developer to more easily code a game. On the simplest level, it can be a physics engine that handles all the math of the game, so that the developer can code the actual content. At a higher level, it can be used to have pre built templates and high level 3d graphics for an affordable price.
Usually, the game developer gives money to the engine to use it, but newer engines have adopted a different approach. The payment is a portion of gross sales of the product, which allows failures to not cost a lot of money. As one Unreal engine spokesperson said, “we succeed only when you succeed.”
The Source engine was made in 2004, and many notable games have been released on it. Some of the most famous are Counter Strike: Source and Half Life 2. Many fans are hoping for sequels to these immensely popular games, and other possible features include compatibility with new VR technology. We excitedly wait Valves latest release.
