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Encyclopedia > Aurora engine

The Aurora Engine is a game engine developed by BioWare for use in computer and console role-playing games. The Aurora Engine was the 3D successor to BioWare's earlier, 2D game engine, called Infinity. In computing, a game engine is the core software component of a video game. ... BioWare Corp. ... Computer role-playing games (CRPGs), often shortened to simply role-playing games (RPGs), are a type of video or computer game that traditionally use gameplay elements found in paper-and-pencil role-playing games. ... The rewrite of this article is being devised at Talk:3D computer graphics/Temp. ... 2D computer graphics is the computer-based generation of digital images—mostly from two-dimensional models (such as 2D geometric models, text, and digital images) and by techniques specific to them. ... The Infinity Engine is a computer game engine, which allows the creation of isometric computer role-playing games. ...


The first game released using the Aurora Engine was Neverwinter Nights, which included a number of tools for users to create their own content. A brief skirmish in Luskan Neverwinter Nights (NWN), produced by BioWare and published by Infogrames Entertainment (now Atari), is a third-person perspective computer role-playing game that uses the Third Edition of the Dungeons & Dragons rules (with minor changes). ...


External links

  • Aurora Toolset Information on the BioWare site (http://nwn.bioware.com/builders/)

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