GDC: Square-Enix announces Crystal Tools
- Posted February 22nd, 2008 at 17:36 EDT by
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While Sony remained pretty quiet this year at the Game Developer’s Conference, one of the exclusive titles for its PlayStation 3 platform made a substantial appearance at the show.
At the “Technology of Final Fantasy” presentation today at GDC, the GM of Square-Enix’s Research and Development Division, Taku Murata, revealed the new name for the next generation game engine, Crystal Tools which is formerly known as the White Engine.
Crystal Tools:
- The first companywide technology platform
- Authoring tools and runtime libraries
- Allows photorealistic CGI to be rendered in real-time.
- Has advanced audio processing, cinematic cut scene transition, physics effects and other effects rendering.
Crystal Tools serves as the engine which will power up Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy Versus XIII, and Square’s upcoming MMORPG which few details are known about.
Please continue to follow our GDC coverage as we have even more content to come, even into the later days of next week.
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Dragon969atpsu |
Dragon969atpn- 5:42pm GMT - February 22nd, 2008
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hopefully using the new refined engine these final fantasys will have a much better battle system then XII's
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The1Weapon
- 7:32pm GMT - February 22nd, 2008
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bnolan56, You might be right, but at the same time it is highly speculated that that part in the original trailer. I, personally, wanna believe that it is, but I need to see more in-game or in-engine footage of it.
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InfernoReaper |
GrimDarkling- 8:45pm GMT - February 22nd, 2008
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Looks like Unreal has a very real competitor now.
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TheMadTitan |
EcksMane XBL: XdaKing WKS- 8:45pm GMT - February 22nd, 2008
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i also jus got banned. i dont even know what for. if it was for my comment in the xbox section then i wanna be perma banned. this is gettin rediculous. vb, has all this racist crap for the banned ppl to see. thx ps3forums
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EFFORTLESS7
- 10:30pm GMT - February 22nd, 2008
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dwelden maybeys yuo gots banded caus u cants spellz....
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duomtl |
duomtl- 2:28am GMT - February 23rd, 2008
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wow dragon969atpsu, you really have no clue, the game engine has nothing to do with the battle system... the battle system is gameplay.. the game engine is just something that runs everything and sends messages to charaters for their animations, or the environments physics.... nothing to do with battle
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Gameware336 |
Tyrial- 4:05pm GMT - February 23rd, 2008
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@Duomtl now i could be wrong..but im prreetttyy sure physics and animations take place during the battle so essentially..yah..the engine has an effect on the battle system. without the engine the game would be lifeless..as would the battle system so you my friend are wrong... plus no need to down the poster....and its character*
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Ensei-Shiki |
djinni001- 3:50pm GMT - February 24th, 2008
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lmao, wow Gameware336, it's funny how you said:" ... plus no need to down the poster..." when you blatantly put another poster(duomtl) because of his/her opinion. I agree with the opinions of duomtl; why would they have a classification for game engine and a classification for gameplay... i don't know maybe because they're different. oh, oh here is another funny one you said: "without the engine the game would be lifeless." WHAT!!! are you serious(sarcasm). lol. no excrement Sherlock. in essence what you're saying is, anytime someone use this engine the gameplay is going to be the same.
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