The Principia Production Platform: Overview

Principia is a collection of components, engines and utilities engineered to help you build games, animations, VFX, machinima and other forms of digital entertainment. All games produced by Western Star Entertainment are built upon Principia. Much of their content is procedurally generated by Principia. We offer to put the same creative power in your hands.

Principia can reduce application development effort by 50-80%, and content generation workload by 30-50% or more. This is so because Principia focuses on the top three work-intensive ingredients of modern games: engines, content and integration.

Engines. Principia provides a configurable meta-engine for implementing, managing and visualizing virtual worlds. In plain English, Principia is not a game engine, but a platform for creating game engines – fast, with cool graphics, correct physics, and entirely to your specification. Whether you are producing a strategy game, a flight simulator, or a casual arcade, Principia can generate the engine to power your product. Several pre-configured engines come with the Principia demos.
Content. Principia provides many procedural systems for authoring textures, geometry, items, characters, animations, behaviors, worlds …etc. Principia also offers procedures for managing content from pre-production through release packaging.

The most effort-consuming aspects of producing a title today are generating content and managing the art pipeline. Two emerging solutions to this challenge are procedural generation and end-user authoring of game content. Principia brings such capabilities to you – and more - in a simple, flexible and interactive manner.
Integration. Games require much more than an engine and artwork. If you think about it, they feature tons of “little things” such as GUI components, physics & AI, networking and much more. If you have already produced a commercial title, you know that the effort to provide and integrate these “little things” can be staggering. Principia offers you an unparalleled library of configurable components that cover virtually every nitty-gritty aspect of game development and publishing.

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And please remember the essential - with Principia, you can produce your titles faster, better and cheaper. With Principia, you can succeed.