Insomniac Games to share code with others
Written by admin on February 25th, 2008 in gadgets.
Hot on the heels of Havoc announcing a free version of its physics engine and animation offering, game developer Insomniac Games is initiating a similar scheme.
The tech sharing the company will be offering is called the Nocturnal Initiative and aims to offer developers around the world access to useful bits of code and presentations covering a range of subjects relating to the development of games. Speaking of the initiative, Mike Action, engineer director at Insomniac, said:
The Nocturnal initiative is designed to encourage greater communication and information sharing among the development community because it will ultimately enable us all to create better games at a lower development cost …
We see Nocturnal as a long-term project that may be valuable for those who want to develop similar technology as us, but without the same effort we needed … We also believe Nocturnal may be valuable for our fans to gain insight to our production processes, while communicating our ideas with a larger group gives us the opportunity to generate feedback on our approaches and ultimately improve them.
Insomniac has the presentations part of the offering already in place through the R&D section of its website, which has been active since August last year. That is set to continue alongside a new Nocturnal Wiki page that will offer access to the code the company releases for public consumption.
Insomniac is probably best known for its Ratchet & Clank series of games and the first 3 Spyro titles, but has also diversified recently on playstation 3 with the release of Resistance: Fall of Man. The independent studio is currently hard at work on Resistance 2.
Read more at GameSpot and the Insomniac Games press release.
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