The development of Kirby Air Riders could be done a little differently thanks to SOL-AVES, Bandai Namco’s new in-house graphics engine.
Kirby Air Riders is now being played on the Nintendo Switch 2 thanks to its online testbut thanks to it we can know that the adventure has the Bandai Namco’s new in-house graphics engine.
It’s called SOL-AVES and it appears to be the company’s new internal enginealthough it has not yet been seen because it has not yet been made public. Could it be used in other adventures for PC, PS5 and Xbox?
Thanks to apparent data mining, the graphics engine’s logo was seen among the Game demo intellectual property notices. In case there was any doubt, Nintendo Life confirms that it is real.
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The graphics engine trademark has been filled”at the end of 2024“, but everything seems to indicate that it has been in development since 2019 and was initially presented in 2022.
In the aforementioned media they assure that they continue hiring and training for the engine and that their The first big public test appears to be Masahiro Sakurai’s new game.
Here There are some engineers testing it and it looks like it can also be found on the official Bandai Namco website, just in the job offers section.
“Bandai Namco Studios develops its own in-house game engine. As part of their training, new engineers had the opportunity to test our in-house developed game engine.
During the training, after learning the basic operations, participants created a simple game. The ease of use of the internal game engine was very well received“, says the website.
From Nintendo Life they remember that, in the past, Bandai Namco used several video game engines -like Unity and Unreal Engine- for larger versions.
The development of Kirby Air Riders appears to be thanks to SOL-AVES
“I’m extremely happy with what I’ve seen in this new session of Kirby Air Riders and it feels like I’ve only scratched the surface.
It remains to be seen all the remaining and numerous content that the Nintendo Switch 2 game will have, a launch that many may not have on their radar…“, we said in our final impressions.
Do you like this seen and played so far in Kirby Air Riders looks thanks to the new SOL-BIRD graphics engine? It could be the first of many others, who knows.
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