Gamebryo
Gamebryo is a commercial engine that began as NetImmerse in 1997. Studios licensed it for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Fallout 3, Civilization IV and Epic Mickey, and Bethesda’s Creation Engine grew out of it.
History
Numerical Design Limited (NDL), founded in 1983 for contract graphics work, released NetImmerse in 1997, and by 2003 it had become Gamebryo. Morrowind (2002) ran on NetImmerse. NDL merged into Emergent Game Technologies in 2005, which added the Gamebryo LightSpeed line.
Emergent cut Gamebryo staff in 2009 and closed its Chapel Hill engineering office by July 2010. In December 2010 its Korean partner Gamebase acquired Emergent’s assets and set up Gamebase USA, and Gamebryo 4.0 (March 2012) merged Gamebryo with LightSpeed. Gamebryo 4.0 is the last documented release.
Games made with Gamebryo
14 games, oldest first. Each game links to the article that names its engine.
| Game | Year | Developer | Engine version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dark Age of Camelot | 2001 | Mythic Entertainment, Broadsword Online Games | NetImmerse |
| Star Trek: Bridge Commander | 2002 | Totally Games | Gamebryo |
| The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind | 2002 | Bethesda Game Studios | NetImmerse |
| Zoo Tycoon 2 | 2004 | Blue Fang Games, Rapan | Gamebryo |
| Civilization IV | 2005 | Firaxis Games | Gamebryo |
| The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion | 2006 | Bethesda Game Studios | Gamebryo |
| Fallout 3 | 2008 | Bethesda Game Studios | Gamebryo |
| Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning | 2008 | Mythic Entertainment | Gamebryo |
| Divinity II | 2009 | Larian Studios | Gamebryo |
| Epic Mickey | 2010 | Junction Point Studios, Purple Lamp (Rebrushed) | Gamebryo, Unreal Engine 4 (Rebrushed) |
| Fallout: New Vegas | 2010 | Obsidian Entertainment | Gamebryo |
| Lego Universe | 2010 | NetDevil | Gamebryo |
| Catherine | 2011 | Atlus | Gamebryo |
| Rocksmith | 2011 | Ubisoft San Francisco | Gamebryo |
At a glance
- Developer
- Gamebase (earlier NDL and Emergent Game Technologies)
- First release
- 1997, as NetImmerse
- Last release
- Gamebryo 4.0 (2012)
- Licence
- Commercial middleware
Sources
Checked .
- Gamebryo — Wikipedia
- Creation Engine — Wikipedia
Image credits
- Gamebryo logo — Gamebase. Trademark of Gamebase. Cropped to the symbol, placed on a white square and converted to WebP