- Faster Time-to-Market – In a competitive market where speed is critical, don't waste time reinventing the core technology. With HeroEngine your team is more productive. Build faster and more accurately.
- Reduce Risk – Take technology risk off the table. Choose a technology that is working for some of the biggest name companies in the business!
- Lower Cost – Licensing HeroEngine is not only faster than building it yourself, it costs less too! Flexible licensing plans exist to fit almost any project.
- Integrated Project Management – HeroEngine makes it easy to keep track of progress and delegate tasks within the system. Use the HeroEngine Notes whiteboard tool to mark up and annotate an area. Send a note to all parties involved and instantly link them to the area that needs attention and tell them exactly what you want them to complete.
- Real-time Worldwide Distribution Results – Using HeroEngine notes, you can delegate to your team all around the globe and see the results instantly.
- Rapid Prototyping and Playtesting – As soon as a project is implemented, you can playtest and make immediate improvements while it's still fresh.
- Fluid Pipeline from Creation to Game – Create and import instantly. No nightly-builds, no asset merges, no "PAK" files to generate. What you drop in the repository is immediately available to everyone.
- Real-Time Asset Revision – Assets update throughout the game as soon as you make changes. Organize assets in libraries. Group them together for even more flexibility.
- Intelligent 3D Objects – Technical artists can wire in grid and rotation systems as they are created, to make world building even easier.
- Powerful Heightmap Tools – Sculpt and texture, hide seams, carve holes, all collaboratively and in real-time.
- Robust Ground Clutter Options – Paint dynamic ground clutter, billboards, 3D models, etc. Each channel of clutter is fully and dynamically adjustable.
- Intelligent Asset Library and Snapping Guides – Build towns and dungeons from a library of components that know how to intelligently snap together.
- Dynamic Sound and Light – Exert complete control over light sources, color schemes, and audio.
- Implement and Test Systems Instantly – Build and test instantly in real-time. Catch scripting errors immediately and work more efficiently. Switch instantly from world building, to game mechanics, to scripting, to actual play testing.
- Custom GUI Tools – Both game and tool user interfaces can be crafted directly in HeroBlade and are available and live immediately. Use the HeroEngine GUI system, Scaleform GFx (for Flash-based GUIs) or a hybrid of both.
- Complete Customizability – Use and extend the MMO Foundation Framework Tools or build your own.
- Quality Support Fast – Access to the engineers that built the engine, and the people who use it everyday to build such titles as Hero's Journey®.
- Plug-In Architecture – A dynamic plug-in architecture, on both the client and server, let you add scriptable components easily without shutting down either the client or server!
- Source Code Available – So you can extend the engine.
- World-Class Scripting Language – HeroScript provides fast performance and MMO-specific framework in an easy-to-learn yet powerful scripting system.
- Hero's Journey® Reference – Access the full Hero's Journey® game as a reference to get up to speed fast.
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