Summary

  • Havok, a Microsoft owned software development company, has reduced its licensing fees from 50,000 for budgets under $20m to help smaller gaming companies survive the current difficult economic climate in the games industry.
  • The fee covers access to the company’s entire suite of software, including Havok Physics and Havok Navigation which can help bring games to life by adding interactivity to the movement of objects within games.
  • Havok’s software is used by most of the top game development companies across the world and the company is hopeful that this fee reduction will help nurture the next generation of top-selling game creators.
  • The reduced fees also allow access to the software’s full feature set, which can help smaller games reach the same quality as “triple-A” titles.

By Dean Takahashi

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