If you thought that Square Enix's Luminous Engine would revolutionize every gaming studio's work, like unreal did, then you're mistaken. US CEO, Mike Fischer told Shack News, "This is an in-house tool. We're not building this around a licensing model." That's right, the beautiful Tech Demo we all saw, Agni's Philosophy, will be exclusive to Square Enix.
Seeing as how SE has recently been branching out with all types of different franchises, such as the recent Hitman: Absolution and the soon to be released Tomb Raider, we will see this engine at work on other titles as well. More and more companies are being merged with Square Enix so it could be a possibility to use this to entice others. Fischer went on to say, "It's my hope that this makes teams and creative people around the world excited to work for us because they'll get their hands on some of the best technology in the industry."
Rumored to be on the Xbox 720 and the PS4, which may be coming out this year, the Luminous engine could make everything drip with beauty and set anew standard among developers. Fairly recently, they showed off a Character creation demo to show the variation of the sliders and affects they could preform with the engine.
Not only that, but if you take a look at the image at the top here: Can you really tell apart the two realtime photo and in game photo? Shack News asked if they would dabble into the movie genre again with this new demo looking so polished. "Our focus right now is on games. Can it do more? It can definitely do more. But our focus is on games," said Fischer. That's not a no! It could come a long in the future with the technology of the new engine. "There's no Final Fantasy movie in the works that I'm aware of, but the key thing is we're very much a creator-driven company. We want to have the technology to help these creators turn their vision into a reality. And that's why we made this investment."
Are you excited for this new engine? Would you like them to use it for another movie?
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