38 Studios Licenses Morpheme
Yesterday, 38 Studios announced that we’ve licensed NaturalMotion’s animation technology, morpheme, for our MMO codenamed Copernicus. Details about this can be found on the 38 Studios site, and you can go to the NaturalMotion site for some visuals and information if you want to know what morpheme can do.
The stuff LucasArts is doing with the Force Unleashed and Euphoria is amazing… I hope that Morpheme is just as surprising. It seems 38 Studios isn’t the only MMOG developer to jump on their tools. CCP has too very recently. I often wish I understood these things so I could offer a real opinion.
All I have to go by right now is, “These companies like it, it must be shiny and/or useful.” Looking forward to seeing how the whole team out East uses it.
I’ve heard good things about Morpheme. The fact that they have a LE is great. I might try it out in the next week or so.
I just think it’s awesome that “38″ is spending resources developing the game and not spending a huge effort making new tech. Yes there’s money in new tech. At this point, I’m not sure it buys you anything in your game.