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Havok’s Vision Engine is also included in the package, and will offer “game samples” and tutorials to help mobile devs create beautiful mobile games. The free download will also include. First off, the company’s Vision Engine is now available for the platform. With its release, the full product suite of Havok technology has made its way to Wii U. Along with access to the free binary downloads of Havok Physics and Animation, developers are able to purchase a source license for any product they desire. Mar 27, 2013 - Havok has announced that their 3D gaming Vision engine, Physics. The free download will also include a broad range of game samples.
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Hey, aspiring game developers! Listen up.
Way back in March, we outlined Project Anarchy, a new 3D engine from Havok (the same people that built the engine behind some of the world’s biggest games, from Assassin’s Creed to Halo 4) that would be completely free to mobile game developers. At the time, the only target they’d give for when it’d be available was “sometime this spring”.
Well, Project Anarchy has just gone live. It’s a few days outside of Spring in the northern hemisphere — but hey, I’ll forgive’m. Free game engine!
Interested developers can find the engine download here. Heads up, though, Mac Devs: Project Anarchy primarily supports Windows developers for now, with the vast majority of its tools (the WYSIWYG game editor, the animation tool, etc.) all being Windows only. The only Mac-friendly tool seems to be the one meant to let you prepare your project for iOS.
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Games built with Project Anarchy can be published without any sort of licensing fees on iOS, Android, or Samsung’s in-the-works mobile OS, Tizen. That last option might seem a bit strange, given that Tizen hasn’t… you know, shipped on anything yet, but there are logical dots that one can connect: Intel bought Havok in 2007. In 2011, Intel dropped support for the flailing MeeGo operating system they’d spent a year working on with Nokia and joined the governing group behind… you guessed it, Tizen. They’ve pretty much got to show love, right?
So, what’s in it for Havok? Why release an engine that doesn’t make them money? Because it does — just not directly. Three of the more obvious draws:
- Intel is making a big push into mobile and, as mentioned, owns Havok. If they can get a few AAA titles to build mobile games on Project Anarchy, they can optimize their chipsets for the engine. If their chips run a few popular games better than anyone else’s, they sell more chips in the long run.
- This potentially helps Havok capture some of those developers that are breaking into the game-making world for the first time on mobile. Remember: they’re still charging for Havok licensing on other, non-mobile platforms (like the Xbox, or the PC); if any of those newfound mobile devs decide to port up to bigger, less portable boxes and stays on Havok’s engine, Havok gets paid.
- In their ToS, Havok reserves the right to “co-market” with your game. In other words, they get to say “Hey! This shiny new mobile game! It was built on Havok!”.
Of course, the mobile development playing field has changed a bit in the last few months. When Project Anarchy was first announced, its biggest draw was that it was totally free for mobile game developers, regardless of whether or not they intended to charge for their app. The closest thing anyone else offered was Unity3D — which, while very, very cheap compared to most pro-grade engines, still charged hundreds of dollars per developer seat for anyone even just looking to dabble with iOS or Android.
Just last month, however, Unity announced that basic iOS and Android publishing support would be free for all small-to-medium sized development houses (perhaps in response to others, like Havok, tiptoeing near their indie game dev turf), with free support for BlackBerry 10 and Windows Phone 8 on the way. They’d continue to offer a Pro package with more advanced functionality, only requiring that developers purchase Pro licenses once they were pulling in $100,000 or more in a fiscal year.
So now, developers have to make a choice: do they develop on Project Anarchy, which is pretty new to this whole indie-game-support thing but free on the two biggest mobile platforms regardless of how much you’re making, or on Unity, which has a rather big community and is on its 4th major iteration, but charges a few grand per developer once you’re big enough to show up on their radar?
Regardless of the pros and cons, everyone wins here. Developers get more options. Players get more games. The world gets more developers learning the ins and outs of pro-grade tools. Hurray!
Middleware developer Havok has finally released Project Anarchy, a game creation tool that’ll allow you to develop games for iOS, Android, and Tizen mobile platforms—free of charge. For budding game developers, this could be huge: Havok’s pedigree coupled with free tools could serve up some real competition for the mobile development landscape.
If you’ve played a video game in the last ten years, there’s a good chance you’ve seen the Havok logo: the company’s physics engine has been used in over five hundred games. With a star-studded lineup that includes Halo, The Elder Scrolls series and Assassin’s Creed, Havok is hoping that fledgling game developers will jump at the chance to use many of the same tools that professionals ostensibly do. Havok has also opened up a Project Anarchy community site, so Anarchy users can band together to share tips and tricks.
I got a chance to check out Project Anarchy back during GDC 2013, and came away impressed. The tool includes Havok’s Vision Engine, a game engine that offers support for multiple platforms, a WYSIWYG code editor, plus lighting and audio tools. You’ll also get Havok Physics (naturally), Havok AI for all of your NPC pathfinding needs, and the Havok Animation Studio, for, well, animating things.
The source code for Physics, AI and Animation are included, so developers can build tools to improve Anarchy. You’ll also have the option to download a sample project developed in the tool, with all of its source code included. It’s all rather impressive: I’ll admit that code-wrangling isn’t my forte but Anarchy offers smart features like viewports that’ll let you see what your game will look like on a variety of platforms, and the ability to “push” your project to a remote device and test it in real time from your PC.
So what’s in it for Havok? Exposure, to start: when you create an Android app, the license requires you to also create an equivalent x86-compatible version that will support x86 devices (like those running the Tizen OS). It’s a guarantee that Anarchy-developed titles will cut a wide swath across mobile devices, a direct shot across the bow at the near-ubiquitous Unity platform. The games you create will also display a Project Anarchy splash screen on startup, as expected.
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And then there’s the potential for profit-sharing: while you’re free to publish games to app stores at your leisure, when you sign up for an account to use Anarchy you’ll need to agree to offer Havok the option to partake in a bit of co-marketing when your game is shipped. There’s no word on what that will entail and the terms state that they won’t be able to work with every game that’s shipped, but would like to keep the option open. There’s also a Professional version of Anarchy available, though teams will need to contact Havok directly to work out a price. It offers tech support directly from Havok, and the ability to publish to a wider range of platforms, including current-generation consoles and Windows Phone.
There are plenty of free mobile development tools out there, but Havok throwing its hat into the ring can only spell good things for folks looking to make dreams a reality, and those of us looking to check out great new games from unlikely sources. The entire package is a hefty download—with extra options, mine weight in at over 3GB—and the tool is geared towards folks with some programming knowledge, but there are plenty of tutorials to help you get started. And it’s all free, so get out there and make some games!
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