Announcing that it has invested in the “serious game” technology used in the defense industry, HAVELSAN announced that it has cooperated with the world’s largest game giant Epic Games. Platforms such as Aksungur, Akıncı and Hürkuş will be modeled within the scope of the cooperation.
HAVELSAN, one of Turkey’s leading defense industry companies, has accomplished a remarkable job. The company has reached a cooperation agreement with Epic Games, the developer of Unreal Engine 5, which is among the best game engines on the market. Many new projects will be implemented within the scope of this cooperation. There will even be an Unreal Engine 5 based game.
HAVELSAN’s post on social media included the details of this agreement. In the statement, it was stated that with this cooperation, the infrastructure for new technologies was created. In addition, it was stated that HAVELSAN has now become a service partner of Epic Games, thus providing support to global corporate customers of Epic Games.
The following statements were used in HAVELSAN’s post on social media:
Cooperation agreement between HAVELSAN and Epic Games
“Best in their field”
HAVELSAN, one of the best simulation developers in the world, collaborated with the world’s giant game developer Epic Games.
“For future technologies”
HAVELSAN, with its Simulation and Manzikert Serious Gaming Infrastructure competencies, has taken a step towards the important technologies of the future.
“Service Partner HAVELSAN”
With this agreement, HAVELSAN will have the chance to serve dozens of countries in the service network of Epic Games.
HAVELSAN becomes the official service partner of Epic Games
Epic Games Unreal Engine technology; It can be used in sectors such as simulation, architecture, metaverse and cinema. However, there is still a very limited number of experts in this technology all over the world. That’s why Epic Games, worldwide audited and validated its expertise creates a portal by bringing together a certain number of companies.
The companies, which are accepted as service partners on the portal and published on the portal of Epic Games, have the chance to support and establish partnerships with projects developed in their fields around the world. With the agreement made now, HAVELSAN is also the part of Epic Games. official service partner located on the portal.
The name who made statements on the subject, HAVELSAN General Manager Mehmet Akif Nacar it happened. Malazgirt Serious Game Infrastructure ProjectNacar said that they have completed the first stage of the project and they will now move on to the second stage.
Talking about the second phase, Nacar said:
Pointing out the importance of presenting realistic images, the outside world and the physical effects there as real in simulators and war games, Nacar stated that the importance of serious games increases when it is made a tool to be used in modeling the battlefield. Nacar said, “What does this mean? It is an area where all kinds of external environments, from streams to hills, from bridges to roads, from trees to plants, from wind to snow, from rain to hail, are modeled as if they were real.”
In the next stage, the modeling will begin.
Nacar stated that after the completion of the second phase, they will open the project as open source and make it available to game developers;
“You can produce valuable values in open source and make them licensed. For example, modeling the platforms used in our country. For example, Atak, Hürkuş, Hürjet, Anka, Bayraktar TB2, Aksungur, Akıncı, MİLGEM, LHD You can model all platforms such as
In other words, by supporting them with a game engine, you can see how they produce a 3D image in the real environment, in the war environment, and how they interact, together with the effects of the outside world, and their benefits in education. In this game environment, you can perform the maneuvers and some operational scenarios you want like a game. We know that there are many game companies in this field in Turkey, there is a wide ecosystem, and we want to ensure that the domestic-national platforms developed in our country develop in terms of games by turning more towards areas such as casual games, serious games, war games.” said.
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https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/savunma-sanayisi/savunma-sanayisinde-ciddi-oyun-hamlesi/2861450