John Austin and Erin Dwyer have put the answers together for you. John Austin is a VP at Emergent Game Tech and Erin is currently the Marketing Communications manager.

Emergent Game Technologies is addressing the industry's most disruptive trends. The scale and complexity of games is growing exponentially, online migration is happening rapidly, and we are at the forefront of delivering the tools, technology, and framework required to build, test, manage and expand interactive games.

Emergent was founded in 2000 and merged with NDL, the company that created the Gamebryo engine and tools, in August 2005. Gamebryo enjoys widespread adoption among game developers, with nearly 200 titles either completed or in development, and has been trusted to create instant classics such as Sid Meier's Pirates!, Civilization IV, the Dark Age of Camelot series, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and Freedom Force. Gamebryo is designed for use with every major platform, including next-generation platforms such as PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

We have one goal: innovation in game development. We provide game developers with all the tools they need to focus on innovation-in graphics, content, game experience, genre, and technology. Our approach is to develop technology that is flexible enough to meet the needs of the full range of users, applications and development pipelines.

We continue to evolve Gamebryo every year and are anticipating new releases throughout the next 6-8 months. Gamebryo has been available for use since 1998. Since then, more than 200 titles have shipped or are in development.

Gamebryo is a cross-platform tool that is genre agnostic allowing for optimal creativity across multiple development projects. Another major advantage is that Gamebryo is extremely scalable We have had several games in the past developed simultaneously for multiple platforms. The cross platform API is common across all platforms but optimized and customized for each platform. That customization exposes particular features of the platform so that developers can take advantage of everything that platform has to offer.

For years, Gamebryo has set the standard for technical flexibility among game engines – it's the best choice for developers looking for a rich set of tools to expand their production pipeline.

Because of this flexibility, our customers' games have been routinely greeted as some of the most beautiful, graphically rich games being created today. This flexibility also means that a game built on Gamebryo has its own unique look In our most recent release of Gamebryo, we have added a Scene Designer that allows developers to assemble new scenes, levels and worlds more quickly than ever. It's all part of a pluggable tools framework that lets developers focus on custom features, content and gameplay to make truly unique titles.

The cross platform, genre agnostic and scalability of our tools is what sets us apart. In one word it's the flexibility—it's been engineered for developers making any time of game. Not just, say, first-person shooters. And I think you see that flexibility in the range of titles using the engine – everything from role-playing games like Oblivion and Dark Age of Camelot to strategy games like Civilization IV. Because of that flexibility, every Gamebryo title can have it's own unique look.

We have customers who use our software along with many other middleware products and tools. For content creation we support both Max and Maya with plugins and exporters. We have customers using Gamebryo along with Speedtree, Scaleform, Kynogon, Miles, Bink, Granny, Ageia, Havok, and other middleware.

Our current release has some DirectX support; we will be supporting additional DirectX10 features in upcoming releases.

We are constantly updating, enhancing, and improving the Gamebryo engine and tools. We deliver about 2 new releases each year to our customer. Our next release will have improved performance due to some significant architectural updates, as well as new subsystems and tools.

That's not correct. Gamebryo is very flexible and our developers can adapt the engine to many different formats.

Absolutely!

No. The hardware requirements are primarily a function of the content that the game developer puts into the game. Complex scenes with many expensive shading techniques will increase the requirement on the hardware. Gamebryo's flexibility allows the developer to create much simpler content and scenes if they want to target a lower end platform.

The key reasons would be flexibility and support. Nearly 200 titles have shipped or are in production using Gamebryo and the proof is in the many successful titles that have been delivered on our engine.

Breakaway Games has produced several titles, including 24 Blue which trains personnel for work on aircraft carriers, and A Force More Powerful, which teaches the waging of conflict with non-violent means. Muzzy Lane has developed "Making History" which is used for high school history classes. ICT, Cubic, and Lockheed Martin have each built several training systems for military applications.

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