Guild Wars 2

Question for Anet:

Nowdays there are several engines out there that flat-out support up to 24 platforms with amazing developpers oriented features, advanced technics and optimizations for all platforms, etc

What are your current ambitions in term of game engine. What futur do you envision for your technology. Have you gone past a hundred games made with your engine yet ? Is it possible to use a VR helmet to immerse oneself into the continents of Tyria ?

They don’t tend to tell us what they are planning for the future. But unless I misunderstand the question, I think I can answer that last bit: they’ve made 2 games with their engine, so no, they haven’t gone past 100. As to VR, there have been threads from players who have made GW2 work in the Oculus Rift but the game isn’t designed for it.

You mean 2 outside of the 2 guil wars games or 2 including the guild wars games ?

Yseron.8613:

You mean 2 outside of the 2 guil wars games or 2 including the guild wars games ?

GW1 was not made in the same engine as GW2.
I don’t know of any other games save for GW2 that was made in the engine, and I strongly doubt there is any.

I think GW2 uses a modified version of the GW1 engine.

But you’re right that it’s a unique engine created for these games, not one that’s used for hundreds of different ones.

Zelanard.5806:

Yseron.8613:

You mean 2 outside of the 2 guil wars games or 2 including the guild wars games ?

GW1 was not made in the same engine as GW2.
I don’t know of any other games save for GW2 that was made in the engine, and I strongly doubt there is any.

GW2 engine is actually a fork of gw1 engine.

Modded and expanded.