PhyreEngine is a license-only free to use game engine from Sony Interactive Entertainment, compatible with PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation VR, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows (for OpenGL and DirectX 11), Google Android and Apple iOS. PhyreEngine has been adopted by several game studios and has been used in over 200 published titles.
Features PhyreEngine is exclusively distributed to Sony licensees as an installable package that includes both full source code and Microsoft Windows tools, provided under its own flexible use license that allows any PlayStation 3 game developer, publisher or tools and middleware company to create software based partly or fully on PhyreEngine on any platform. The engine uses sophisticated parallel processing techniques that are optimized for the Synergistic Processor Unit (SPU) of the Cell Broadband Engine of PS3, but can be easily ported to other multi-core architectures.
PhyreEngine supports OpenGL and Direct3D, in addition to the low level PS3 LibGCM library. It provides fully functional "game templates" as source code, including support for Havok Complete XS, NVIDIA PhysX and Bullet for physics.
History The development of PhyreEngine was started in 2003 to create a graphics engine for PlayStation 3. The first public demonstration occurred in 2006.
PhyreEngine was launched during the 2008 Game Developers Conference. New features (including deferred rendering) were showcased during GDC 2009. Version 2.40, released in March 2009, included a new "foliage rendering" system that provides tools and technology to render ultra-realistic trees and plants to be easily integrated into games.
Version 3.0, released in 2011, has a new and powerful asset pipeline, combining enhanced versions of the already robust exporters, with a powerful processing tool to generate optimized assets for each platform. Also new is the rewritten level editor, which permits a far more data-driven approach to authoring games using PhyreEngine. Version 3.0 added support for the PlayStation Vita.
+ List of games using PhyreEngine Title Developer YearAkiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed Acquire 2013MaliciousAlvion 2010 Rugby League LiveBig Ant Studios 2010 AFL Live 2011 AFL Live: Game of the Year Edition 2012 Critter CrunchCapybara Games 2009 Below 2018Colin McRae: DirtCodemasters 2007Race Driver: Grid Codemasters 2008Unravel Coldwood Interactive, Electronic Arts 2016Unravel Two2018Hyperdimension NeptuniaCompile Heart, Idea Factory, Gust Corporation,Nippon Ichi Software, Sega 2010Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2Compile Heart, Idea Factory 2011Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory 2012Megadimension Neptunia VII 2015Mugen SoulsCompile Heart, Idea Factory, Nippon Ichi Software 2012Mugen Souls Z 2013Hotline MiamiDennaton Games, Abstraction Games 2012Burn Zombie BurnDoublesix Games 2009 The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel Falcom 2013The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II 2014Tokyo Xanadu 2015The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III 2017The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV 2018The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie 2020Savage Moon FluffyLogic 2008CatanGame Republic 2008Knytt Underground Green Hill Studios 2012 Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of ArlandGust Corporation 2009 Ar tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel 2010 Atelier Totori: The Adventurer of Arland 2010 Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland 2011 Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk 2012DivekickIron Galaxy Studios 2013 PachiPara DL Hyper Sea Story In KaribuIrem 2008 Zettai Zetsumei Toshi 4: Summer Memories 2011Strength of the Sword 3 Ivent 2013Super Mega Baseball Metalhead Software 2014 Trinity Universe Nippon Ichi Software 2009 Last Rebellion 2010 Disgaea 4 2011 The Witch and the Hundred Knight 2013 Rocketbirds: Hardboiled ChickenRatloop 2011 Rocketbirds 2: Evolution 2016OlliOlli2: Welcome to Olliwood Roll7 2015Gravity RushJapan Studio 2011Under Siege Seed Studios 2011 GripShiftSidhe Interactive 2007 Shatter 2009 Mars: War LogsSpiders 2013 Bound by Flame 2014 The Technomancer 2016 Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD RemasterSquare Enix 2014 Final Fantasy XII Zodiac Age 2016Dragon Quest Builders2016Flowerthatgamecompany 2009Flow 2007 Journey 2012 AmyVectorCell 2012 Flashback 2013ibb & obb Sparpweed & Codeglue 2013 Super Motherload XGen Studios 2013
Derived game engines EGO Silk Engine
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