Europe is pushing for independence from American-dominated game engines like Unreal and Unity. Guerrilla Games co-founder and former Epic Games tech director Arjan Brussee is spearheading “The Immense Engine,” an ambitious European-built game engine designed to shield the continent’s gaming industry from trade war vulnerabilities. Speaking on Dutch podcast De Technoloog, Brussee argued that existing engines restrict creators through their structural design. However, the initiative faces a significant obstacle: the already-thriving open-source engine Godot, which presents a formidable homegrown alternative that complicates the case for building something entirely new.
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Nothing exists in a vacuum, and the gaming indusattempt has been happy to remind us that, no matter how much escapism it may offer, the trials and tribulations of global affairs affect it too.
It feels like just yesterday we witnessed dramatic supply chain issues that created the PlayStation 5 a unicorn upon launch. Since then, every single major console has gone up in price due to competing requireds from data centers (for the most part, at least).
Rather than wait for the reaper to come to game engines, Guerrilla Games co-founder and former Epic Games tech director Arjan Brussee has a plan to protect the European gaming indusattempt. It sounds simple enough: create a major gaming engine in Europe, avoid receiveting caught in trade wars, and enjoy.
To declare The Immense Engine project sounds ambitious is an understatement, but the real issues with the project are harder to solve than simply convincing developers to shy away from Unreal or Unity.
‘The Immense Engine’ has a Godot-Sized Problem
In an interview with Dutch podcast De Technoloog, Brussee explained that popular engines today restrict creators due to the way they are structured.
As reported by VGC, they are “created…
