HPL3

[Romulator]

I am really curious will HPL3 be open for making games, not only mods and conversions. I mean self-contained games for releasing independently, free or commercially with some sort of fee to Frictional. I really hope that overall movement in the industry is changed so much, so that Frictional might open up engine similar to Unreal engine, CryEngine, Unity. HPL3 looks like a competitor to them for many reasons.

The main problem is, you need an application capable of reading and interpreting the .map and .hps files. That's the primary purpose of a(n isolated) Full Conversion, as it allows you to use Amnesia/SOMA as an executable to read the compatible files and also allowing users to make their own kind of HPL project

And not to downplay, but those engines are capable of supporting much heavier products and are frequently updated for up to date standards in graphics and processing, and are much more likely to contain diverse projects that are not simply custom stories.