What is Faked Reality?

In 2003 a joint venture was formed between Realspace Technologies OEG (www.realspace.org) and Speckdrumm, (www.speckdrumm.org) in order to produce a new next generation game engine, which is going to be fully open sourced. The project received the tentative title "FakedReality", and is based on the code that was developed for the commercial Aeolus engine from Realspace Technologies.

This was also done in order to produce a freeware game called "Mogui" for a university project, certain key members of Realspace Technologies and Speckdrumm must finish by June 2003, which is based on FakedReality.

While many open source 3D game engines exist already, FakedReality follows a different paradigm, of providing an easy to use toolset to produce games without requiring much hardcore C++ coding, while providing the latest features. One could say FakedReality directly competes with technologies like Unreal Warfare, or Doom 3 engines.

FakedReality, (FR) in its current incarnation is realized on a highly modular component based architecture, which allows to extend the main engine core with plugin modules very easily. In fact almost 90% of the engines functionality is implemented as a series of plugins.

To achieve this a COM like system was developed, which allows to use components from different modules with ease.

To achieve shader independent art asset management and easy shader usage, we invented the FlexShader System which is based on Realspace Technologies OEG Technology. We target only shader capapable hardware, so only GeForce3/ATI Radeon 8500 and above are supported.