Gamebryo is driving the market with engineering-efficient solutions to solve multi-core problems in cross-platform video game development. By offering Floodgate to Gamebryo customers in mid-2007, Emergent provided a solution for multi-core processing pain when it was first being felt in the industry. We are dedicated to continuing that commitment with your project.
Floodgate delivers on consoles and PCs with diverging processor and memory architectures. As a stream processing engine, Floodgate maximizes the advantages of multi-core technologies while minimizing the headaches.
Floodgate: A Solution to Multi-Platform and Multi-Core Game Development
With most games developed for multiple platforms, the game programmer is forced to independently optimize parallel codebases to take advantage of the multi-core capabilities on each platform – and branch development in an entirely different direction if the Wii is a target as well.
Multi-core processors have made code reusability even harder to achieve, and are a direct contributor to the growing budgets and extended schedules with which today’s game studios are grappling. Emergent offers an innovative solution with Floodgate.
Diminish Game Development Complexity
Floodgate enables you to quickly and easily take advantage of the processor and memory configurations in your target development platforms. Once you specify the operations to perform and the associated streams of data (like graphics, AI, sound and physics data), Floodgate executes those operations with maximum efficiency for all the platforms.
Faster, Higher-Quality Multi-Platform Game Development
Typically, studios develop for a primary platform, then target their game for a secondary platform. This adds both time and money to the development process, often resulting in a lackluster product for the secondary console due to budget constraints and end-of-project time crunches.
With Floodgate, you can advance farther into development on several multi-core platforms before defining platform-specific operations. As a result, you can launch higher-quality, hardware-optimized titles more quickly.
Read Emergent’s Floodgate Whitepaper
We invite you to review the Floodgate white paper, Simplifying Cross-Platform Game Development in a Multi-Core Environment, to learn more about the advantages to deploying Gamebryo and Floodgate for your project.