Tour releases the world's first 3D open source game engine genesis-3d

"Science and technology News" November 21, Sohu Tour today officially announced its first free open source business-class game engine genesis-3d. This investment of 30 million U.S. dollars, taking four years to complete China's first self-developed cross-platform game engine, but also the world's first 3D business-class open source game engine, not only will significantly reduce the entry threshold for domestic game development, but also in the game development costs and cycle breakthroughs.

Genesis-3d project leader, Sohu Travel technology director Shup to participate in the launch of the mobile game developers, media site demonstrated the characteristics of the engine, he will be the core strengths of the engine positioning in five areas: first, the domestic top quality, the engine in the core technical parameters with the international first-class engine on par, Built-in art materials, with a strong expansion, support for the full range, and backward-compatible 2D, can perfect a set of code to cover PC stand-alone, Web pages, micro-end, IOS, Android, Winphone and other platforms; second, free open source experience, Relative to the current market of existing mobile game engine high licensing and partitioning costs, swim promises to use this engine for free to developers; third, easy to operate, support the collaboration of many people, swim genesis-3d support in Chinese and English one-click Switch and visualization mode, more suitable for China's developers; First-class service security, swimming not only for developers to provide a variety of game framework, research and development and operation support, but also provide the corresponding brand, financial and technical support; Five, suitable for the Chinese market, the tour for developers to provide localized technical support, more rapid response, and provide a one-stop solution from research and development to the online.

"This engine is very easy to use, and we hope that the development team that uses our products can put more effort into game development to help them get online with creative products quickly." Shup said that the tour also provided the engine with a strong engineer service team, the developer of engine technology training and continuous technical services.
　　

2013 is the year of global mobile game explosion, according to the statistics of the survey, the mobile gaming field is expected to reach the annual market size of 9.19 billion yuan, an increase of 371.1%, much higher than the average growth rate of 15% of the client game market.

"We know that the market is very hot, the release of this engine is to ' add fuel '," the goal of the engine development team is not how much money to make, but how many developers can help make great products. "Tour CIO Pan Wenjuan said. In revenue, the tour is China's third-largest online game developer and operator, according to the latest reported earnings, its 2013 third quarter revenue 1.114 billion yuan, net profit of 443 million yuan. "Enjoy the strength and ability to continue to invest energy in the GENESIS-3D project to help the upstream small and medium mobile game development team to build a complete and healthy China Mobile gaming ecosystem." "Pan Wenjuan said.

Sohu Tour Mobile Operations Division general Manager Chen revealed that the current swimming in the research of mobile game has 30 or so, including a variety of games based on genesis-3d development. Swimming in addition to the engine technology to provide support to developers, in the operation of the swim also very much hope to work with upstream research and development, for the use of GENESIS-3D engine products, the latter can be considered to provide priority to operate and the priority to authorize IP and other cooperation.

In the conference scene, Sohu swims with Beijing to Le World, star Tour Tiangang and so on a number of mobile game development companies signed a cooperation agreement, the latter will use genesis-3d engine for related game research and development. At the same time, there are a number of game companies and Sohu Cruise signed a letter of intent for the follow-up cooperation laid the foundation.