I took a look at O3DE, because I was saw that it is based on CryEngine and could be a neat open source alternative to Unreal, but that engine really still need some work to streamline pipelining.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I took a look at O3DE, because I was saw that it is based on CryEngine and could be a neat open source alternative to Unreal, but that engine really still need some work to streamline pipelining.
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Ryse: Son of Rome | Steam Deck
CryEngine is a beast! Seriously cannot believe my eyes. This game is 12 years old and still gives current gen games a run for their money and it’s running on a handheld!
(I also miss Crytech naming games with a “Y” in them)
CryEngine is a beast! Seriously cannot believe my eyes. This game is 12 years old and still gives current gen games a run for their money and it’s running on a handheld!
(I also miss Crytech naming games with a “Y” in them)
November 9, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Ryse: Son of Rome | Steam Deck
CryEngine is a beast! Seriously cannot believe my eyes. This game is 12 years old and still gives current gen games a run for their money and it’s running on a handheld!
(I also miss Crytech naming games with a “Y” in them)
CryEngine is a beast! Seriously cannot believe my eyes. This game is 12 years old and still gives current gen games a run for their money and it’s running on a handheld!
(I also miss Crytech naming games with a “Y” in them)
Also, a few years ago, Amazon licensed CryEngine and used it to make Lumberyard, which was supposed to be this awesome open source game engine to compete with Unity.
But the only devs that used it were their own and Cloud Imperium Games (long story), and it's pretty much dead now.
But the only devs that used it were their own and Cloud Imperium Games (long story), and it's pretty much dead now.
Amazon Lumberyard - Wikipedia
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November 2, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Also, a few years ago, Amazon licensed CryEngine and used it to make Lumberyard, which was supposed to be this awesome open source game engine to compete with Unity.
But the only devs that used it were their own and Cloud Imperium Games (long story), and it's pretty much dead now.
But the only devs that used it were their own and Cloud Imperium Games (long story), and it's pretty much dead now.
It’s true, both Cryengine and Unreal have their limits and require extensive back end work to stabilize an MMO environment. We looked at both, and went with UE because of the ease of adoption and robust support community. Would you have looked at others?
October 31, 2025 at 8:56 PM
It’s true, both Cryengine and Unreal have their limits and require extensive back end work to stabilize an MMO environment. We looked at both, and went with UE because of the ease of adoption and robust support community. Would you have looked at others?
The original devs were warned not to use Cryengine because it wasn't suited to an MMO. It resulted in a lot of spaghetti code to force it to do what they wanted. Ever wondered why when they fixed one bug it broke a bunch of other things? Now you know:)
October 31, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The original devs were warned not to use Cryengine because it wasn't suited to an MMO. It resulted in a lot of spaghetti code to force it to do what they wanted. Ever wondered why when they fixed one bug it broke a bunch of other things? Now you know:)
Curious why you think Cryengine was a mistake.
October 31, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Curious why you think Cryengine was a mistake.
and it runs fantastic. So glad they stuck with Cryengine instead of going over to UE5
October 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
and it runs fantastic. So glad they stuck with Cryengine instead of going over to UE5
This is not correct.
Star Citizen is built on the Star Engine, which is a heavily refactored fork of CryEngine 3. Lumberyard is owned by Amazon, and is a fork of Cryengine 3.8.
In 2021, Amazon open-sourced Lumberyard and created the O3DE project with the Linux Foundation.
Star Citizen is built on the Star Engine, which is a heavily refactored fork of CryEngine 3. Lumberyard is owned by Amazon, and is a fork of Cryengine 3.8.
In 2021, Amazon open-sourced Lumberyard and created the O3DE project with the Linux Foundation.
October 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
This is not correct.
Star Citizen is built on the Star Engine, which is a heavily refactored fork of CryEngine 3. Lumberyard is owned by Amazon, and is a fork of Cryengine 3.8.
In 2021, Amazon open-sourced Lumberyard and created the O3DE project with the Linux Foundation.
Star Citizen is built on the Star Engine, which is a heavily refactored fork of CryEngine 3. Lumberyard is owned by Amazon, and is a fork of Cryengine 3.8.
In 2021, Amazon open-sourced Lumberyard and created the O3DE project with the Linux Foundation.
Lumberyard was the CryEngine?
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Alt: Chris pratt what
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October 29, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Lumberyard was the CryEngine?
Amazon also applied “the Amazon way” to game development with absolute conviction even after it had disastrous results.
This, after buying the legendarily difficult CryEngine toolset and rebranding it Lumberyard.
This, after buying the legendarily difficult CryEngine toolset and rebranding it Lumberyard.
I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.
October 29, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Amazon also applied “the Amazon way” to game development with absolute conviction even after it had disastrous results.
This, after buying the legendarily difficult CryEngine toolset and rebranding it Lumberyard.
This, after buying the legendarily difficult CryEngine toolset and rebranding it Lumberyard.
"Hi team of industry pros! I'm your new VP! One time I worked on the team that launched AWS, and that made an ungodly amount of money. Surely I can make an MMO with ten THOUSAND concurrent players off of a half-gutted CryEngine. Wait, why are you crying?"
October 29, 2025 at 3:38 AM
"Hi team of industry pros! I'm your new VP! One time I worked on the team that launched AWS, and that made an ungodly amount of money. Surely I can make an MMO with ten THOUSAND concurrent players off of a half-gutted CryEngine. Wait, why are you crying?"
📰 NEWS: 13 years after being revealed as a CryEngine mod, TimeSplitters Rewind is finally set to release in November. (via @pcgamer.com).
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/34weweu7
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/34weweu7
October 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
📰 NEWS: 13 years after being revealed as a CryEngine mod, TimeSplitters Rewind is finally set to release in November. (via @pcgamer.com).
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/34weweu7
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/34weweu7
At that point me and my friends were playing any f2p MMO we could find.
Remember Aion for being an MMO build on Cryengine and also having flying built into the base game (when flying in WoW was so restricted/debated)
Also Vindictus for being a source engine mmo with physics sometimes lol.
Remember Aion for being an MMO build on Cryengine and also having flying built into the base game (when flying in WoW was so restricted/debated)
Also Vindictus for being a source engine mmo with physics sometimes lol.
October 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
At that point me and my friends were playing any f2p MMO we could find.
Remember Aion for being an MMO build on Cryengine and also having flying built into the base game (when flying in WoW was so restricted/debated)
Also Vindictus for being a source engine mmo with physics sometimes lol.
Remember Aion for being an MMO build on Cryengine and also having flying built into the base game (when flying in WoW was so restricted/debated)
Also Vindictus for being a source engine mmo with physics sometimes lol.
Fan project! Been in the works for a while but faced a lot of development issues and went from CryEngine to Unreal Engine eventually.
October 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Fan project! Been in the works for a while but faced a lot of development issues and went from CryEngine to Unreal Engine eventually.
“Here is our memory management system. I won’t get into it too much, because nobody else uses CryEngine anyway.”
(Laughter from the audience)
(Laughter from the audience)
October 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
“Here is our memory management system. I won’t get into it too much, because nobody else uses CryEngine anyway.”
(Laughter from the audience)
(Laughter from the audience)
TIL: CryEngine, which was forked into Amazon's Lumberyard project, was eventually forked by "Open 3D Engine (O3DE)", which is still kept up to date today.
If you're looking for an engine with good features / usage terms other than GoDot, this seems like a pretty good and very underrated option […]
If you're looking for an engine with good features / usage terms other than GoDot, this seems like a pretty good and very underrated option […]
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October 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
TIL: CryEngine, which was forked into Amazon's Lumberyard project, was eventually forked by "Open 3D Engine (O3DE)", which is still kept up to date today.
If you're looking for an engine with good features / usage terms other than GoDot, this seems like a pretty good and very underrated option […]
If you're looking for an engine with good features / usage terms other than GoDot, this seems like a pretty good and very underrated option […]
Get ready for new GI system in CRYENGINE Community Edition 1.0. This is an early showcase of that system. Still work in progress.
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October 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Get ready for new GI system in CRYENGINE Community Edition 1.0. This is an early showcase of that system. Still work in progress.
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You see this in the other engines too: Unity, Unreal, Godot, GameMaker, CryEngine. They *plan* to break the API, and ship a new version. There's no API freeze, no "no more breaking changes". You can't have your cake and eat it too: getting new features and improvements forever with no breakages.
October 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
You see this in the other engines too: Unity, Unreal, Godot, GameMaker, CryEngine. They *plan* to break the API, and ship a new version. There's no API freeze, no "no more breaking changes". You can't have your cake and eat it too: getting new features and improvements forever with no breakages.
A mi también, pero siempre hay excepciones. De la misma manera que los motores gráficos de los videojuegos tienen cada uno sus cosas (no es lo mismo el CryEngine que los Unreal o Unity), no todos los CGI son iguales.
October 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
A mi también, pero siempre hay excepciones. De la misma manera que los motores gráficos de los videojuegos tienen cada uno sus cosas (no es lo mismo el CryEngine que los Unreal o Unity), no todos los CGI son iguales.
Looks like a Cryengine community version is in the works as no word om Cryengine 6 but some limitations still apply as it’s not fully open sourced.
Cryengine Community Edition
Games from scratch just reported about the current Cryengine 5.7 being updated by the community into its own community edition. Since Crytek has no word about the next update to Cryengine 6 this is a semi open-source solution to take the Cryengine forward. A previous forked happened with Lumberyard as a fork of Cryengine 3. But Amazon did not managed to make it as mainstream as Unity or Unreal and spun it off to its own open sourced project O3DE.
blog.cg-boss.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Looks like a Cryengine community version is in the works as no word om Cryengine 6 but some limitations still apply as it’s not fully open sourced.
👑 Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is running on CryEngine — not Unreal.
A reminder that even “forgotten” tools can still deliver AAA results with the right team.
For most devs, O3DE may be the better #CryEngine alternative. #gamedev
blog.cg-boss.com/2025/10/04/c...
A reminder that even “forgotten” tools can still deliver AAA results with the right team.
For most devs, O3DE may be the better #CryEngine alternative. #gamedev
blog.cg-boss.com/2025/10/04/c...
Cryengine and Kingdom come Deliverance 2
👑 Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is running on CryEngine — not Unreal. A reminder that even “forgotten” tools can still deliver AAA results with the right team. For most devs, O3DE may be the better C…
blog.cg-boss.com
October 4, 2025 at 7:54 AM
👑 Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is running on CryEngine — not Unreal.
A reminder that even “forgotten” tools can still deliver AAA results with the right team.
For most devs, O3DE may be the better #CryEngine alternative. #gamedev
blog.cg-boss.com/2025/10/04/c...
A reminder that even “forgotten” tools can still deliver AAA results with the right team.
For most devs, O3DE may be the better #CryEngine alternative. #gamedev
blog.cg-boss.com/2025/10/04/c...
But it seems I might've missed my chance to sell on Cryengine. It seems everything on the store is free and according to my search, you can longer set prices.
October 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
But it seems I might've missed my chance to sell on Cryengine. It seems everything on the store is free and according to my search, you can longer set prices.
The last time I looked into Cryengine was in 2021 I think. Because after finding results on The UEMarketplace
I had interest in looking for more stores to sell assets on
I had interest in looking for more stores to sell assets on
October 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The last time I looked into Cryengine was in 2021 I think. Because after finding results on The UEMarketplace
I had interest in looking for more stores to sell assets on
I had interest in looking for more stores to sell assets on
Wait
On the Cryengine store they just have the Crysis player animations??
IN FBX FORMAT???
On the Cryengine store they just have the Crysis player animations??
IN FBX FORMAT???
October 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Wait
On the Cryengine store they just have the Crysis player animations??
IN FBX FORMAT???
On the Cryengine store they just have the Crysis player animations??
IN FBX FORMAT???