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Creating the Online Game


tar Wars: The Old Republic was this year’s most highly anticipated MMO World Gaming Executives had an opportunity to interview the people behind HeroEngine to learn more about the game development tool. Developers can download HeroCloud, the free service for building online games.


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For those who may be less technical, like myself, could you explain HeroEngine to my Grandma please?


“HeroEngine lets people create video games that run on the internet and that let many people play together in simulated 3D worlds.”


Hi Grandma. HeroEngine lets people create video games that run on the internet and that let many people play together in simulated 3D worlds.


HeroEngine is the complete solution for building online games. We supply the engine that renders graphics and animation – like many other game engines – but we also include the server system that keeps track of all players and manages communication and gameplay.


Both the renderer (“client”) and the server are tightly integrated, which is much more efficient than using separate systems and trying to get them to work together – for example, the HeroEngine client and server use the identical scripting language which makes it much easier for your programmers to do their work.


HeroEngine functions in realtime – everything any member of the team builds is immediately working for everyone else on the team – this means that there is no downtime for the daily “build” process that other engines require, where everyone’s work is integrated together. Our system is faster and promotes collaboration as well as rapid prototyping and testing.


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