HydroEngine Revealed!

"Water in games has so far been merely a flat plane with ripple effects and other graphical smoke and mirrors applied to it..."

"...The HydroEngine is different in one key respect - the water flows. It looks and behaves exactly like real water. Nothing like this has ever been seen in games before"

- Dr Huw Lloyd, Blade R & D Director

Blade's HydroEngine technology is the result of years of intensive development work, and is only possible on next-generation systems. HydroEngine allows us to model flowing water and other liquids, which behave exactly as you would expect in real life. Water can flow down corridors and stairs, and is entirely dynamic, which means you never get the same behviour twice.

What's more, HydroEngine can interface with solid body physics engines such as Havok, so that objects and debris can be carried with the flow, and interact with dynamic environments and characters in countless ways.

HydroEngine is the centrepiece of Blade's new survival adventure title Hydrophobia, which uses this revolutionary new technology to deliver a game experience beyond anything which has been seen before.

For more information and screenshots of Hydrophobia, check back soon. Meanwhile, watch the video below for a detailed overview of HydroEngine.

"Seeing it in action in a demo of Hydrophobia, it's first game outing, is immediatly startling"
- Edge magazine on HydroEngine

"Undeniably, HydroEngine and InfiniteWorlds are both incredible pieces of technology. In fact, they're probably the first truly next-gen tool sets"
- 360Gamer Magazine

"It introduces a whole new substance to games: water, with the power to wash the player, and every other loose object, away with it."
- Edge magazine