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Scaleform and Emergent Team Up to Deliver Integrated UI and Graphics for Game Developers
Scaleform Announces Plan to Fully Integrate the Scaleform GFx SDK with Emergent Gamebryo Elements |
SAN JOSE, USA, March 22, 2006: Scaleform Corporation, the leader in hardware-accelerated user interface (UI) and scalable vector graphics engines for games announced today that they plan to integrate the Scaleform GFx SDK into Emergent's Gamebryo game engine. Combined with Gamebryo, Scaleform GFx will be part of a tightly integrated cross-platform game development solution for PCs, PlayStation® 3 Xbox® 360™ and beyond.
Gamebryo is one of the game industry's most licensed graphics engines, with more than 70 titles currently in development, and has recently been used to create hit games such as Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (a launch title for Xbox 360), Sid Meier's Pirates!, Civilization IV, the Dark Ages of Camelot series, and Freedom Force. With many clients demanding a fully integrated UI solution, Emergent and Scaleform began their collaboration by delivering the 3D and UI technology for Firaxis Games award-winning release of Sid Meier's Civilization IV.
"Scaleform GFx gives us a great response to the needs of our game developers. We are excited to continue delivering successful integrated solutions," said John Austin, Emergent's Chief Operating Officer. "Game developers have been clamoring for a UI solution that would enable artists to create advanced HUDs and animating textures in industry-standard visual tools like Adobe's Flash® Studio. With an integrated package, artists will be able to rapidly extend the signature look of their game into the UI, creating a more compelling and absorbing user experience."
Building on the success of Gamebryo, Emergent is developing technologies that will revolutionize the process of building, testing, and managing games for the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
"We are very enthused with Emergent's breadth of vision and are proud to be a part of their comprehensive tools and middleware strategy," said Brendan Iribe, President and CEO of Scaleform. "Scaleform GFx is a perfect fit with Emergent's vision for highly integrated game development tool kits. The combined solution delivers a seamless artist-oriented rapid development environment that game studios can depend on."
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 such as 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 platform is built on the 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 Emergent
Emergent Game Technologies is the source for all the tools required to build, test, manage and expand interactive games. The company focuses on creating flexible tools to usher in the next era of innovation in game development.
Emergent is headquartered in Calabasas, Calif., and has offices in Chapel Hill, N.C., Walnut Creek, Calif., Austin, Texas, and London. The company recently merged with NDL, the award-winning developer of the Gamebryo 3D graphics engine & toolkit.
For more information, please visit www.emergent.net.
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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