Decima is a proprietary

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made by

Guerrilla Games Guerrilla B.V. (trade name: Guerrilla Games) is a Dutch first-party video game developer based in Amsterdam and part of PlayStation Studios. The company was founded as Lost Boys Games in January 2000 through the merger of three smaller developm ...

and released in November 2013, that includes tools and features like

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and

game physics Computer animation physics or game physics are laws of physics as they are defined within a simulation or video game, and the programming logic used to implement these laws. Game physics vary greatly in their degree of similarity to real-world ...

. It is compatible with

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and

high-dynamic-range imaging In photography and videography, multi-exposure HDR capture is a technique that creates extended or high dynamic range (HDR) images by taking and combining multiple exposures of the same subject matter at different exposure levels. Combining mu ...

, used for games on

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and Microsoft Windows.

History

The first game the engine was used for was '' Killzone: Shadow Fall''. In June 2015, Guerrilla Games announced that '' Horizon: Zero Dawn'' was using the engine for development. In August 2015, ''

Until Dawn ''Until Dawn'' is a 2015 interactive drama horror video game developed by Supermassive Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 4. Players assume control of eight young adults who have to survive on Blackwood Mo ...

'' was announced to be using the engine along with Havok physics. In December 2015, '' Until Dawn: Rush of Blood'' used the engine along with

PlayStation VR The PlayStation VR (PS VR, known by its code name Project Morpheus during development) is a virtual reality headset developed by Sony Interactive Entertainment, which was released in October 2016. It is fully functional with the PlayStation 4 a ...

. In June 2016,

Hideo Kojima is a Japanese video game designer, director, producer and writer. He is regarded as an auteur of video games. He developed a strong passion for action/adventure cinema and literature during his childhood and adolescence. In 1986, he was hired ...

announced preparation for

Kojima Productions Kojima Productions Co., Ltd. is a Japanese video game development studio founded in 2015 by video game designer Hideo Kojima, creator of the ''Metal Gear'' series. It is the spiritual successor to a production team inside Konami also known as Ko ...

' independent game ''

Death Stranding ''Death Stranding'' is a 2019 action game developed by Kojima Productions and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 4. It is the first game from director Hideo Kojima and Kojima Productions after their split from Kona ...

'', inspecting two engine candidates, of which the latter had been used to create the first teaser that was unveiled at the

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conference. After receiving the Industry Icon award at

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, Kojima premiered a trailer for the game with the engine's logo. At PlayStation Experience, Kojima had announced that he had partnered with Guerrilla Games, using the engine for development on ''Death Stranding''. According to executive producer Angie Smets, Decima was originally known simply as "the engine" by Guerrilla employees, as there were initially no plans to publicly offer this technology to game developers outside of the company. However, the newly forged partnership with Kojima Productions meant that Guerrilla suddenly had to give the engine a name for marketing purposes; they chose to name it after

Dejima , in the 17th century also called Tsukishima ( 築島, "built island"), was an artificial island off Nagasaki, Japan that served as a trading post for the Portuguese (1570–1639) and subsequently the Dutch (1641–1854). For 220 years, ...

, the Japanese island where a Dutch Empire trading post appeared in the 17th century and once symbolized the strong trade relations between Japan and the Netherlands. Guerrilla's most recent title, ''

Horizon Forbidden West ''Horizon Forbidden West'' is a 2022 action role-playing game developed by Guerrilla Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The sequel to 2017's '' Horizon Zero Dawn'', the game is set in a post-apocalyptic version of the We ...

,'' used an updated version of the engine. The game was released for

and

on February 18, 2022.

Features

During PlayStation Experience in December 2016, it was revealed that the engine has

and logic tools, featuring resources for creating entire worlds. It is capable of

and

Games

References

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