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Crytek Will Use Scaleform GFx for the Highly Anticipated Crysis to Deliver a Cinematic UI Experience
Scaleform and Crytek announce a long term agreement to use Scaleform GFx in all Crytek titles and CryENGINE SDK |
SAN JOSE, USA, March 20, 2006: Scaleform Corporation, the leader in hardware-accelerated user interface (UI) and scalable vector graphics engines for video
game entertainment, and award-winning game developer Crytek announced a ten-year agreement today to integrate the Scaleform GFx SDK into Crytek's leading-edge
CryENGINE™ graphics engine.
In addition, all new Crytek titles will take extensive advantage of the Scaleform GFx SDK, including the highly anticipated Crysis™. Developed by Crytek, the makers
of the award-winning Far Cry™ title, Crysis will be a new first person shooter franchise based on ground-breaking innovations in game play and technology. "Our
focus has always been on innovating game play and technology. Scaleform shares Crytek's commitment to delivering cutting edge experiences to gamers through our
original intellectual properties. Crysis will be a showcase for that commitment and will offer gamers from around the world the next step in FPS innovation. Using
our new state of the art CryENGINE 2 and Scaleform GFx, Crysis will deliver an unrivalled cinematic experience," says Cevat Yerli, CEO & President of Crytek.
"We are thrilled that Crysis will be the launch title for Scaleform GFx. Looking forward, we expect to collaborate on a catalogue of awe-inspiring games, both
authored by Crytek and by its CryENGINE licensees," said Brendan Iribe, President and CEO of Scaleform. "With Scaleform GFx tightly integrated in the CryENGINE
infrastructure and tool chain for all platforms including PC, current and next generation consoles, artists can rapidly design, develop and deploy scalable
Flash® content within the 3D environment."
The Scaleform GFx SDK is a light-weight high-performance rich media vector graphics engine for Console and PC game developers, combining the scalability and
development ease of proven visual authoring tools like Flash Studio, with the latest hardware graphics acceleration that cutting-edge game developers demand.
Using Scaleform GFx, companies can change from a programmer-centric static UI development environment to an artist-driven dynamic UI and animated texture production
pipeline.
The Scaleform GFx rich media engine is built on the core Scaleform VGx hardware accelerated vector graphics technology, which tessellates vector graphic shapes into
triangles that modern 3D video cards can render. By converting the data into triangles, Scaleform VGx can output vector graphics many times faster than traditional
software rasterizers, allowing it to be used within high-performance full-screen multimedia environments.
About Crytek
Crytek®, Best Independent European Studio 2004 and Best Independent New Studio 2004 worldwide, creator of the multiple awards winning true next generation first
person shooter Far Cry is an interactive entertainment development company located in Coburg, Germany. Crytek is dedicated to create exceptionally high quality
Video Games for PC and the next generation consoles, with their proprietary cutting edge 3D-Game-Technologies CryENGINE™ and Polybump™.
Crysis © Crytek. All Rights Reserved. Crysis is a trademark of Crytek.
CryENGINE © Crytek. All Rights Reserved. CryENGINE is a trademark of Crytek.
Far Cry™
© Ubisoft Entertainment, All Rights Reserved. Published by Ubisoft Entertainment. Far Cry is a trademark of Ubisoft Entertainment in the U.S. and/or
other countries. Based on Crytek's original Far Cry, directed by Cevat Yerli. Powered by Crytek's technology "CryEngine."
For further information please visit www.crytek.com.
About Scaleform
Scaleform Corporation - is a leading provider of tools and middleware for the video game, embedded, mobile, and desktop markets. Scaleform licenses a
suite of cross platform, hardware accelerated vector graphics engines and UI toolkits, which allow users to design, develop, and deploy a variety of
interactive entertainment content across a wide range of platforms and formats. For more information,
please visit: www.scaleform.com.
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