Ten years ago, developer Crytek, came with a new game engine: the CryEngine. This engine was very innovative and is very suitable to make topgames with. For instance, the populair Crysis franchise and FarCry are made with this engine. But because it’s a pretty complicated engine, Sean Tracy and Paul Reindell wrote a book about it. In 354 pages, they’ll explain everything you need to know to quickly get started with the engine.
Cry Engine
If you don’t know what the CryEngine is and where you can use it for, then you will not get far. That’s why this book explains (very clear) what the CryEngine is, what the possibilities are and how big your team need to be to develop a game. It’s handy to know these things and in five minutes you can get to work.
Learn by doing, less theory, more results
You can learn many codes, but if you know them, you don’t know how to use them. And that’s why this book directly starts with practice. Trough examples you learn step by step how to use the engine. That’s the strong point of Packt Publishing. Because by every book of Packt Publishing you learn things by using everything in practice and you don’t learn only the theory.
Time for action
Each chapter starts with ‘Time for action’. In it the authors
explains what you have to do to reach a certain thing. Then comes the
heading ‘what just happened?’, in which the authors explains what you
just did. After that you can change the code you just wrote and
experiment with it. The writers gives a few examples which you can use.
Finally there’s a summary of the chapter and a couple of questions. With
those questions you can test if you know enough of the chapter and then
you can go on to the next chapter.For beginners
This book is for those who wants to start with the CryEngine, but who do not know where to start. If you have finished the book you know much about the engine and you can specialize further in it. The book is very clear, there are many examples in it and on the website of Packt Publishing you can download several examples and codes so that you don’t have to retype/copy paste them from the book.
Conclusion
If you want to start with the CryEngine, then this is the perfect book for you. You don’t have to learn many codes, but you’ll learn by example. The writers explains everything very clear and if you finished the book you can directly start to make your own game. If you’ve finished the book and you’re already started with the CryEngine, than the book is an excellent reference book, because every chapter contains a good summery and you can find the things that you want to know quick.
About the authors
Sean Tracy is Crytek’s Senior Field Application
Engineer for the award-winning CryENGINE. He is responsible for adapting
the engine and its features to individual licensees, as well as
developing full technical and “vertical slice” demos for prospective and
existing clients. Describing himself as a “generalizing specialist”, he
also gives support directly to CryENGINE licensees while designing and
maintaining their workflows, pipelines, and development techniques. Sean
was recruited by Crytek in 2008 after working as an electronics
technician for the Canadian military. He was recruited due to his role
in founding and leading development on the award-winning total
conversion project—MechWarrior: Living Legends. Since then, he has been
featured in numerous gaming magazines and has been invited to speak at
manygame-related trade shows, conferences, and seminars. He is an avid gamer with extensive modding experience on titles, including Never Winter Nights, Battlefield, Doom, and Quake. This is Sean’s second book.
Paul Reindell has been an Engine Programmer in the SDK team since June 2010. He is responsible for UI programming, next-generation features, and the development of new tools for the CryENGINE 3 Sandbox, as well as for forum support for CryENGINE licensees. He has also worked on projects for licensees and evaluators. During his diploma thesis, Paul started as an Intern at Crytek in March 2010. He finished
his diploma theses successfully in June and started directly as a Junior Programmer in the SDK team. During his academic studies, he created a mod prototype with CryENGINE 2 (GarbageWarz); and during his diploma thesis, he was able to connect CryENGINE 3 successfully with a Head tracking API. Before working at Crytek, he worked for three years as a programmer at DENSO Germany besides his studies.
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