Epic Acquires Reality Engine

by Maarten Goldstein, May 12, 2005 8:06am PDT

Related Topics – Epic Games, Unreal Engine 3

Epic Games today announced it has snapped up the Reality Engine, and is bringing Artifical Studios founder / lead engine programmer Tim Johnson in-house. Epic will not continue sales or support of the Reality Engine, but certain aspects of the engine might find their way into the Unreal Engine. Developers who have licensed the Reality Engine will receive a discount on an Unreal Engine 3 license if they choose to upgrade.

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By: GreatGooglyMoogly x Show Full Post

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I'm sure he meant an engine that developers would actually consider licensing.

May 13, 2005 4:49am PDT

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I'm sure he meant an engine that developers would actually consider licensing. : GreatGooglyMoogly
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- Reply to #16 :/ : GreatGooglyMoogly

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I bet not a single line of Reality Engine comes within a thousand miles of the Unreal engine, purely a business move.

May 12, 2005 2:01pm PDT

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I bet not a single line of Reality Engine comes within a thousand miles of the Unreal engine, purely a bu... : gl2 drivers
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  It sounds to me like they wanted to hire the guy, and this is the way they found of doing it. I think the... : rorshack
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    They bought an entire company......to hire one person? I don't think so, no matter how good he is. I'm su... : gl2 drivers
    - here, read this: http://www.paulgraham.com/hiring.html Companies don't just purchase other companies f... : ghale

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Interesting take on this from an "angry dev"
http://angrydev.blogspot.com/2005/05/moment-if-i-may-to-address-gamers.html

May 12, 2005 11:40am PDT

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Interesting take on this from an "angry dev" http://angrydev.blogspot.com/2005/05/moment-if-i-may-to-add... : d3tached
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Worst news in the world for those using/considering the Reality Engine. They are totally SOL and on their own for support. I think it's pretty shitty for them to not at least continue support until the licences end.

May 12, 2005 4:02pm PDT

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Worst news in the world for those using/considering the Reality Engine. They are totally SOL and on thei... : omnova
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  http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=10060034 : sgtsanity
  - Didn't see that. Should be in 72 pt font! : omnova

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was about to post this on fp

Holy shit. This is big news. Didn't see this one coming.

RE & UE3 integrated = :O

I've been following the development of Reality Engine for quite some time and I always wished some of the stuff from RE would be in Unreal Engine 3. Extremely interesting to see what TimÃ‚Â² can accomplish :)

May 12, 2005 9:14am PDT

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was about to post this on fp Holy shit. This is big news. Didn't see this one coming. RE & UE3 inte... : SlamDunk
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What games used the reality engine?

May 12, 2005 8:25am PDT

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What games used the reality engine? : K1Bond007
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Great news for Unreal Engine games. The RE had some really cool effects that if incorporated with Unreal, could make one really sick and dominate engine.

May 12, 2005 8:10am PDT

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  Sounds to me they just didn't want devs to have an option of licensing the Reality Engine instead of the ... : yourname00
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    uh ? how about no... Epic will not continue sales or support of the Reality Engine ... pretty solid if yo... : BigT
  - Sounds to me like they wanted to hire the guy and the engine disappearing was an unfortunate side effect ... : SpiderMonkey

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I hope this brings more hype, and more compaines to the
Physics Processing Unit Table..

I want to see more support for this PPU

May 12, 2005 12:40pm PDT

I hope this brings more hype, and more compaines to the Physics Processing Unit Table.. I want to see... : ShadowRam

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"I'd like to clarify that all existing Reality Engine licenses will continue to be valid. UE3 is only an upgrade *option*, licensees may continue with Reality Engine without hinderace, and all support obligations will be upheld.

-Tim Johnson, Epic Games"

May 12, 2005 11:32am PDT

"I'd like to clarify that all existing Reality Engine licenses will continue to be valid. UE3 is only an : SlamDunk

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By: aavenr x Show Full Post

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Tim Johnson must be a very happy man. He now has crapload of $$ at the bank and a badass job at Epic.

May 12, 2005 11:22am PDT

Tim Johnson must be a very happy man. He now has crapload of $$ at the bank and a badass job at Epic. : aavenr

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John Carmack better beware.. for here comes... TimÃ‚Â²!

May 12, 2005 11:12am PDT

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John Carmack better beware.. for here comes... TimÃ‚Â²! : rorshack
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  - You beat me to it on the TimÃ‚Â² joke Sh*t, we need a new 'SmartyMan Gaem Designar Survivor Island'. : rorshack

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I guess that's not a bad thing for tthe Reality developers, but I was personally looking forward to having a competing next-gen engine.

May 12, 2005 8:32am PDT

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I guess that's not a bad thing for tthe Reality developers, but I was personally looking forward to havin... : WaterSign
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- I'm sure Carmack's keeping busy. : FlatlineDixay

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