COLUMBIA, SC – Valkyria Chronicles, the SEGA Corporation game scheduled for North American release in November after a highly successful debut in Japan, includes the SpeedTree®RT technology, SEGA has revealed.
“Valkyria Chronicles will reward players with both amazing gameplay and a first-rate environment,” said Ryutaro Nonaka, SEGA Producer. “SpeedTree is a very important part of the game’s graphical excellence.”
The game, released exclusively for “PLAYSTATION®3” in a Japanese version in April 2008, is a tactical action role-playing game set in a world similar to Europe in the 1930s. In the game, players control the people of the fictitious Gallian nation as they struggle against an invasion by the East Europan Imperial Alliance.
SEGA® Corporation is a worldwide leader in interactive entertainment both inside and outside the home, encompassing consumer business, amusement machine sales and amusement center operations. The company develops, publishes and distributes interactive entertainment software products for a variety of hardware platforms including PC, wireless devices, and those manufactured by Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. SEGA® Corporation's Web site is located at http://sega.jp
SpeedTreeRT, winner of the 2005 Front Line Award for middleware, delivers highly realistic trees and plants, with adjustable wind effects, user-configurable and seamless LOD transitions, and an included library of hundreds of tree, plant and marine models representing more than 200 core species. SpeedTreeRT includes SpeedTreeCAD, a Windows application used to create and edit animated trees in real-time.
Interactive Data Visualization, Inc. (IDV) develops software products with a focus on real-time three dimensional applications for the game development, visual simulation, engineering visualization, and animation industries. IDV, a privately held corporation, was founded in 1999 in Columbia, South Carolina. For more information about IDV, visit www.idvinc.com.
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