Gaming giant EA has created Halcyon with support for Vulkan and Linux

The video game giant Electronics Arts (EA) has developed an experimental graphics engine for video games called Halcyon that has support for Vulkan and Linux. The news itself may seem uninteresting, since there are several game engines with Linux support, and some of them are very good. However, that it supports the powerful Vulkan graphics API is great news, but if we go to the bottom of the matter, it seems even more interesting to me that a company like EA creates a product with Linux support ...

That means a lot to the future of video games in the GNU / Linux world, so it is always very nice to hear this kind of news. We have learned the news during the Meetup in Munich, Germany, held by the open technologies consortium KhronosFor those who do not know, the one that currently manages OpenGL, Vulkan, and other interesting APIs for development that are used so much, especially in the Unix world, where Microsoft's DirectX is not present.

Graham Wihlidal of SEED (Search for Extraordinary Experiences Division) of EA has been the protagonist who presented it during the talk he gave in Munich about this important project that is still in the experimental phase. In addition to the support for Linux and Vulkan, which are the main claims of this presentation, it will also be compatible with Metal 2 and Direct3D 12. In addition, its developers have thought of creating easy access to the configuration of multiple GPUs, although it is true that still they have not implemented multi-GPU or Ray Tracing support for Vulkan, although little by little ...

This could indicate that EA might launch video games for Linux in the future, although it is not very clear. What is certain is that the game engine looks very good in terms of functionalities and characteristics, and also that when this experimental stage ends and is used to build video games, having support for Linux, making ports for our operating system will not be a such a complicated task, and there are no excuses not to do it ...