EGO (game engine)

Ego Engine

Developer(s)	Codemasters, Sony Computer Entertainment
Stable release	4.0 / 2015
Platform	PlayStation 3 Microsoft Windows Xbox 360 Mac OS X Linux Wii Wii U Xbox One PlayStation 4
Type	Game engine
License	Proprietary
Website	Codemasters Official Website

Ego Game Technology Engine (more commonly referred to as Ego Engine or EGO, stylised ego) is a video game engine developed by Codemasters.

Ego is a modified version of the Neon game engine that was used in Colin McRae: Dirt and was developed by Codemasters and Sony Computer Entertainment using Sony Computer Entertainment's PhyreEngine cross-platform graphics engine.^[1] The Ego engine was developed to render more detailed damage and physics as well as render large-scale environments.^[2]

Games using the engine

Neon

• Colin McRae: Dirt (2007)

EGO 1.0

• Race Driver: Grid (2008)
• Colin McRae: Dirt 2 (2009)
• F1 2009 (2009)
• Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising (2009)
• Bodycount (2011)

EGO 1.5

• F1 2010 (2010)

EGO 2.0

• Operation Flashpoint: Red River (2011)
• Dirt 3 (2011)
• F1 2011 (2011)
• Dirt: Showdown (2012)
• F1 2012 (2012)
• F1 Race Stars (2012)

EGO 3.0

• Grid 2 (2013)
• F1 2013 (2013)
• Grid Autosport (2014)
• F1 2014 (2014)
• Dirt Rally (2015)^[3]

EGO 4.0

• F1 2015 (2015)

References

1. "DiRT 2 demo: PS3/Xbox 360 performance showdown". Eurogamer. 28 August 2009. Retrieved 15 August 2010.
2. "CODEMASTERS REVS IN-HOUSE GAME ENGINE". Codemasters. 6 December 2007. Retrieved 3 April 2011.
3. "Codemasters announces DiRT Rally, a hardcore rally sim available now on Steam Early Access". VideoGamer.com. 27 April 2015. Retrieved 9 June 2015.