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Infinity Engine

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Infinity Engine is a game engine which allows the creation of isometric role-playing video games. It was originally developed by BioWare for a prototype RTS game codenamed Battleground Infinity, which was ultimately re-engineered to become the first installment of the Baldur's Gate series. BioWare used it again in the subsequent installments of the series, but also licensed the engine to Interplay's Black Isle Studios.

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Since 2005 there is a open source version of the game engine, called GemRB, which is a multiplatform implementation of this engine.[1]

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Characteristics

Infinity Engine was conceived by BioWare as a base of their complex demo called then Battleground Infinity, which later in its final form became a game Baldur's Gate.[2] The graphical engine is an API written in OpenGL.[2] and was created specially for cRPG games - in truth, it is based on isometrics pre-rendered graphics 2D and both PCs and NPCs use sprites.[2][3]

In December 2002, after publishing a game Baldur's Gate 2, Ray Muzyka decided that there would be a patch published for games of Bioware, so the Infinity Engine could work in resolutions bigger than 800 x 600 pixels.[4] The last computer game using Infinity Engine was Icewind Dale 2 from 2002;[5] it was not until 2016, after 17 years since publication of the oryginal game, it was developed a expansion Siege of Dragonspear for Baldur's Gate using the same graphical engine.[6]

A natural evolution of the Infinity Engine was Aurora Engine that was used by Neverwinter Nights computer role-playing game by BioWare in 2002.[7]

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List of games using Infinity Engine

The following games and expansions are powered by the Infinity Engine:

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