Iceland’s Fenris Creations is boldly going where they haven’t gone before.
The studio behind the long-running online tactical space MMO EVE Online and the currently-in-development EVE Frontier have made their mark on the game, even earning themselves a Guinness World Record for being the setting of the largest multiplayer PvP battle with 8,825 players fighting at once.
EVE utilizes an in-house engine, the Carbon Engine, developed over more than 20 years.
Fenris is now offering that engine to other game developers in a series of open-source releases spanning more than two dozen Carbon modules, covering major parts of the platform used by Fenris Creations to build and operate its games.
These elements include Destiny, Carbon’s physics simulation and pathfinding technology, best demonstrated across EVE Online’s record-breaking battles. It also includes Trinity, Carbon’s graphics module, perfect for large-scale sci-fi worlds filled with hi-res assets.
Other module topics include elements such as functionality, networking, UI, audio, resource management, scripting, scheduling, and the tools required to create massive online experiences.
Fenris Creations is selling its engine as a unique creation built independently by a working game studio to service its own games, and it benefits from more than 23 years of experience across Fenris Creations’ portfolio of titles.
“Carbon was built for a very specific purpose: to support living virtual worlds that can endure for decades,” said Ben Hunter, senior development director for core technology at Fenris Creations, in a press release. “It has carried EVE Online through more than 20 years of continuous operation, from everyday player activity to some of the largest battles in videogame history. Open-sourcing Carbon is about making that foundation visible, understandable, and useful to others. It is a commitment to transparency, longevity, and the belief that the next generation of persistent worlds will be stronger when more people can study, challenge, and build on the technology beneath them.”
You can access the full Carbon repositories today.
