Square Enix: Goodbye White Engine, Hello Luminous

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Square Enix: Goodbye White Engine, Hello Luminous

 

If you remember back in March, there was a recruitment page about a new next-generation engine. This brought up speculation at first of a Final Fantasy VII remake since they used Cloud Strife's eyes as a key visual, but of course it's nothing like that.

 

At the CEDEC event, Square Enix's Yoshihisa Hashimoto revealed a new engine called "Luminous." The engine will incorporate technology from previous Eidos games such as Deus Ex and Kane and Lynch. The goal of Luminous is to be "a game engine that can truly take on the world head on."

 

The engine will be efficient for high quality develpment and its features were listed in these bullet points: "Visual Editing," "Live Editing," "Concurrent Editing," "Automatic Build and Automatic Test," "Online Friendly," "Asset Management Functionality," "Advanced Rendering," "Task Management," "Simple," "Cross Platform," "General Purpose," "Modularity" and "Scalability." Hashimoto closed off by saying we should expect to see how Luminous works in games in 2 years at the latest.

 

The news of this engine comes as both good and bad. The good news is that this new engine should improve their games even further for next generation. However, it seems like they're ditching the White Engine which was used for Final Fantasy XIII and is being used for Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy Versus XIII too fast and seems like a waste. But, if they can create better console games with this engine, it could be for the better.

 

Source: Andriasang

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[Noctis]

I don't see them saying anything about ditching the white engine. WE is likely to continue being used high budget FF games while the Luminous takes on other mid level ones including Eidos games.