New id Engine Revealed At Apple WWDC07
Hot on the heels of EA's news of bringing games to the Mac platform, Steve Jobs revealed id's new engine on the Mac. John Carmack and company have been secretly developing a new engine which, by the above screenshot, looks impressive. ...or, as Gizmodo put it, like an Xbox 360 or PS3 game. Hotness!
Joystiq, who are also covering the event, managed to jot down what Carmack had to say:
"So the last couple of years at id we've been working in secrecy on next-gen tech and a game for it ... this is the first time we're showing anything we've done on it publicly." He describes the demo happening on screen: "What we've got here is the entire world with unique textures, 20GB of textures covering this track. They can go in and look at the world and, say, change the color of the mountaintop, or carve their name into the rock. They can change as much as they want on surfaces with no impact on the game."
At the end of the presentation, Carmack added, "We're going to be showing on a Mac, PC, PS3, and Xbox at E3, we'll have another Mac announcement at E3."
Now that's exciting! First EA, not id Software will bring this and possibly more titles to Mac? What of this new gorgeous looking engine? Could this give Unreal 3 a run for its money? All in good time! Be sure to stay tuned and I look forward to hearing about this "Mac announcement at E3!" For some pictures of the new engine courtesy of Engadget, make the jump!
Super Timsy
Posted to Video Games on 11 June 2007
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While I'm not a big gamer on my Mac, it's nice to see the platform not only getting a little love in the gaming world, but being taken a little more seriously - this stuff looks loads better than anything I've seen on the Mac before, game-wise.