Crytek: Crysis 2 editor this summer, full SDK in August

Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli has written an open letter to the studio’s modding community. In it, he divulges the plan to release an editor for Crysis 2 this summer. Beyond that, a free CryENGINE software development kit is expected to go public in August.

He stresses how this SDK will be “a complete version of our engine,” with C++ code access, content exporters (including LiveCreate real-time pipeline), shader code, game sample code from Crysis 2, script samples, improved Flowgraph, and asset examples. Nice on you, Crytek.

If you count the time I spent watching and rewatching the video above, this is the longest it’s taken me to write a post in months. Probably shouldn’t be okay with that fact, but oh well. So worth it.