Logo of Fusion (Ka3D)
Fusion (Rovio's internal version of Ka3D) was a game engine used for most of Rovio's early slingshot games. It was later replaced with Unity due to decreasing popularity of the engine within the company.[1]
History[]
In 2002 Jani Kajala would found Cat Mother, a game company. In doing so he would also go onto design a game engine that would be highly portable with little compromise with a main focus in Microsoft platforms. Unfortunately the company would close before it would get a chance to release a game and so released their source code, containing the earliest released version of Fusion (at the time simply called "3D-engine".[2]
After this Kajala would found a second company in 2004, PixelGene, formalising the engine as Ka3D (Kajala 3D) and continuing to develop it, while offering slightly feature-reduced open-source variants for other developers via books[3] and other forms of online distribution. The engine itself was very popular at Rovio around that time, so Rovio bought PixelGene[4] in order to have more control over their technologies.
At some point Rovio split the engine into two variants internally, the 3D-based "Ka3D" and the more general "Ka-Core" which meant the engine could be better integrated into other game frameworks.
Fusion editor version 0.9.0.41 RC[1]
Eventually in 2012, after having used the engine heavily in the Angry Birds series, there was an internal decision to begin modernized the engine giving it a visual UI[1] and a rebrand as "Fusion" (a reference to the fact it merged Ka3D and Ka-Core back together). This new version of the engine began to see use around August 2012 with the earliest reference to it being found in a prototype for The Croods.[5]
Unfortunately the engine upgrades proved to be ineffective, and the engine began to fall out of use in 2015, in favor of the more popular Unity technologies, a move that would be spearheaded by Mauricio Hollando.[6]
Angry Birds games that use Fusion[]
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Trivia[]
- The only game to credit the engine is Angry Birds Seasons in the credits.[7]
- Angry Birds Space version 1.3.1 was the first released game to use the engine after it was changed to Fusion from Ka3D in October 2012.[8]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/server/api/core/bitstreams/0b4b1aa5-f5c2-4e9a-aabb-a835586d9e12/content
- ↑ https://catmother.sourceforge.net/
- ↑ https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Making_a_Game_Demo.html?id=jpiz__Pz_K8C&redir_esc=yr
- ↑ https://www.gamedeveloper.com/game-platforms/rovio-mobile-acquires-3d-mobile-engine-firm-pixelgene
- ↑
/Users/caiosabino/Documents/Stone/external/Fusion/build/xcode4/gr/../../../source/gr/Context.cpp - ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/mauricio-hollando-b1b02325/details/experience/
- ↑ https://twitter.com/angry_facts/status/1529846417971367939
- ↑ File:Ka3D to Fusion.jpeg
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