With Gamebryo LightSpeed, Emergent continues a long heritage of dedication to genre and platform diversity, truly enabling our customers' visions. Some of the many benefits to using LightSpped include:
Rapid Prototyping and Production
Build a prototype quickly and easily – then build upon it. When you build your prototype with Gamebryo LightSpeed, you’re building your game. Everything you develop for your demo moves directly into your game, making Gamebryo LightSpeed your prototype and your production solution.
Rapid Iteration
Rapid Iteration, workflow enablers, real-time updates, and tools usability and functionality unblock artists and designers and increase production efficiency. Streamline the creation of scenes, levels, and worlds. Iterate with gameplay mechanics, look-and-feel, and art assets in more detail with less time, to get your game looking and playing the way you want.
Multi-Platform
All of Emergent’s products are built on a common architecture, but are have targeted for optimization on features and functionality for each specific platform. So even if a studio “only” develops a single PC, Xbox 360, PS3, or Wii title, the studio can rest assured that it’s choosing a proven technology solution optimized for that specific particular platform. Whether you are developing serially or concurrently, Gamebryo LightSpeed maximizes your investment, allowing cross platform games to cost less and deliver faster! Using LightSpeed gives you more options for maximizing your commercial return by giving you the technical option to target multiple platforms – and minimizes risk and cost if the decision happens to be made late in the project.
Modular and Extensible
Middleware is not a “one-size fits all” technology, and it’s not “your game in a box” (otherwise, everyone would be making your game out-of-the-box). Take the pieces of the tech you want, jettison the rest, extend it for your particular genre, your game, your implementation. Because it’s middleware, you’re starting with a deep technology layer, and you can spend the bulk of your production time differentiating your game – not fighting to make the technology support it.
Proven and Reliable
Emergent’s products have been part of over 300 games worldwide in every genre. You don’t have to question whether LightSpeed can be used to create a game in a particular genre – it’s been done. And you can look at commercial examples, talk to game teams in the community, and re-use technology and lessons learned from the thousands of folks who have gone before you. Deeper integrations with other best-of-breed game technologies so you can further leverage the investments you’ve already made.